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FAMOUS MEN 

OF A 

FAMOUS CLASS 



Prepared by 
FREDERICK HOUK LAW 



AMHERST *95 






THE CLASS OF AMHERST '95. 

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot 
And never brought to mind? 

Should auld acquaintance be forgot 
And days of auld lang syne? 

For auld lang syne, my dear, 

For auld lang syne; 
We'll tak* a cup o' kindness yet, 

For auld lang syne." 



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AMHERST '95 



OLD MEMORIES— OLD FRIENDSHIPS. 



How the memories come flocking back as we think over 
our college days! How the old faces appear again, not 
as they are to-day, but young, boyish, with life all ahead! 

How the blue lines of mountains and hills rise before 
us, beautiful and clear, as on the day when we first saw 
them, when we rumbled over from "Hamp!" The sharp- 
ly serrated ridge of the Holyoke range, and the great, 
rounded masses of the Pelham Hills and Mount Toby 
are still before our eyes! 

What a world of mystery and magic lives beyond the 
Notch! Over in another direction hangs the smoke of 
Northampton, — Mecca, with Smith College as its Kaaba! 

What walks and talks! What drives! What dances! 
What wonderful days ! What a world of boyhood dreams 
we lived in — twenty-five years ago! No — to-day, — for 
we live it all over, day after day. 

We read over the names of our Classmates, and know 
something that is still as fresh and strong as it was 
twenty-five years ago, even stronger and dearer, — ^the 
power of friendship. 

Friendships began when our struggling band of Fresh- 
men came to Amherst in 1891. Friendships have con- 
tinued with the years. They, like the hills and moun- 
tains of Amherst, survive, something lasting and touched 
with eternity. 

It is in the spirit of friendship that this volume ha? 
been prepared. In the midst of the busy world of life, 
every one in the Class will enjoy sitting by himself and 
reading the sketches that bring back old days, old scenes, 
old memories and strengthen old affections. 

Come back to Amherst in June, to the Twenty-fifth Re- 
union, reach out your hand to your fellow Classmates, 
and feel once more the thrill of Amherst, of youth, and 
of lasting friendship. 



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AMHERST '95 



IN AMHERST TOWN. 



In Amherst town the blue skies beam 
On many a bright and hopeful dream 

Of youth, which knows no doubt, no fear, 
And thinks of friends and friendships near; 
And trusts that men are all they seem. 

So this is youth, and youth's bright dream! 
It somehow has a brightened gleam 

From off the shining sunbeams clear, 

In Amherst town. 

And yet a day will come — I deem — 
When brightness all away will stream; 
And all the world so dark and drear. 
And men so strange, that then I'll hear 
They crave again that sunny dream — 
In Amherst town. 

From the '95 Olio. 



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AMHERST *95 
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. 

My dear Classmates: 

Fred Law, the autocrat, has issued his command that 
I send you a message and there is nothing for me to do 
but to obey. He has asked me to comment briefly on 
changes in the College since our day. It may seem odd 
that I say "our" instead of "your," but the years from 
'91 to '95 were identified in a peculiar way with my own 
life. I was still in my young manhood, when, as Berg- 
son says somewhere, "every day holds in its lap a new 
future." I was certainly a youngster at that time, with 
mop of red hair, combative, confident, still dreaming, 
ever planning. 

The changes in the College within the last quarter of 
a century have been profound. On the material side, 
the number of our buildings has doubled, the real es- 
tate in land has increased about a third, the endowment 
has quadrupled. The three hundred-odd students in '91 
have become five hundred-odd in 1920. The thirty-six 
teachers have become fifty-six, and only three of us whom 
you knew in '91 still survive on the active list, Cowles, 
Kimball and I. 

Changes in the curriculum have been no less marked. 
Amherst, though still with the reputation of being a 
classical college, is far less so than it was in your day. 
In other respects there has been a decided change in em- 
phasis: the single year of Economics has grown into 
fourteen semesters; History from two years has devel- 
oped into twelve semesters; Political Science, except as 
taught incidentally, did not exist at Amherst in '91, 
and now eight semesters of work are devoted to it. Even 
in Freshman year the men have the opportunity of be- 
ing introduced at once into a course in Social and Eco- 
nomic Institutions. Briefly, the tendency in the cur- 
riculum has indicated a shift from what have been 
called the disciplinary studies to those that supposedly 
serve to connect up with the life of the student in the 
world. 

In the matter of outside activities, there has been a 
very marked development. In your day there was little 
more than football, track, and baseball, and the concerts 

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of the musical association. Dramatics came in in a 
sporadic way, but could never be looked upon as a con- 
sistent policy of the students; now we have in addition 
regular hockey, tennis, basketball, swimming, golf, and 
there is a possibility that we may have boxing and 
wrestling. There has also been a great development in 
intramural sports, a line of growth which is rightly fos- 
tered by all who have the best interest of the college 
at heart. 

What about the spirit of Amherst, which is, after all, 
the main thing? I have an idea that strong, good, and 
useful men can be turned out under almost any curricu- 
lum with the right kind of teachers and the right at- 
mosphere. What about this atmosphere? I have lived 
now under four administrations, counting Old Doc's tri- 
umvirate. Each has contributed something definite to- 
ward the development of college spirit, toward the change 
in the atmosphere of the institution. For instance. 
President Harris welded into one body the elements of 
the College which had become heterogeneous and to a 
large extent unrelated. The solidarity of the students 
and Faculty and the Alumni and the splendid loyalty 
which is shown to-day toward Amherst is in my opinion 
largely his work. Among President Meiklejohn's contri- 
butions has been the marked intellectual impulse he has 
given to the institution. In all my twenty-nine years of 
connection with the College I have never known a deeper 
interest in things of the mind than we find here to-day. 
He has broadened and transformed the curriculum and 
has brought into the teaching force many new men of 
independent thought and intellectual power. 

Law suggested that I undertake to foretell the future. 
Prophecy is dangerous, but safer for an old man than 
for a young, because the former will pass away before 
his prophecy comes home to roost. In my opinion, Am- 
herst is moving on toward greater and greater success. 
If this were not the fact, I should never have had the 
faith in any "present"; for the decisive test of the suc- 
cess of an institution is whether or not it contains the 
germ of greater success. In other words, we could hard- 
13^ honor, as we do, the names of Seelye, Carman, Tyler, 
Morse, if their teaching and their personality had not 
made possible an Amherst larger than, and in many re- 
spects markedly different from, their own. To-day at 

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the age of sixty-six, I am, so far as the College is con- 
cerned, more optimistic than I was a quarter of a cen- 
tury ago. 

In conclusion, one of the items in Law's questionnaire 
is, "What were your ambitions in 1895?" I can best 
answer this by saying, although I did not definitely 
frame them so then, "To become and remain worthy of 
the first Freshman class I ever taught at Amherst Col- 
lege." Yours in '95, 

George D. Olds. 



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AMHERST '95 

THE CLASS SECRETARY'S MESSAGE. 

'95 is coming back to a great reunion this twenty-fifth 
year — ALL of '95, charter members, better halves, thirds, 
and some minor fractions. 

A good time is ahead for all of us when we get to- 
gether again. 

"Freddie" Law has done great things for us in re- 
introducing us to one another in his up-to-date biographi- 
cal "Who's Who." 

Oh! the grand and glorious feeling it is to find every- 
body enthusiastic over the plan to include railroad trans- 
portation and all other expenses in one common Jack Pot 
of Class reunion costs! 

Members of the Class may "ante," but no member 
may pay any of his own costs of going and coming. 

There is a reason. 

Absences would break up the party. It is the pleas- 
ure of the Pack that all shall come; and that it may do 
as it will with its own. It is the pleasure of the Class 
to invite all members of '95, with wives and children, to 
be its guests. 

Thank offerings will be received, but only from con- 
trite, humble '95ers, exhaling the incense of their grati- 
tude that they are not as other classes are, butter-fingers, 
ex-Sabrina, or anything else. Heaven forbid! but just 
'95, at this June of Grace, 1920. 

Thank offerings may be large, and thank offerings 
may be small, but the joy of the Pack will be filled to 
overflowing if every one can say, "the gang's all here." 

That every loyal Classmate may be free to play fair 
with the Class in this deal of all things in common, the 
Treasurer of the Class will treat as confidential the 
amounts of all thank offerings. 

Hence, nota bene, — those who would over-subscribe, 
and those who would stay away, are alike consigned to 
the oblivion of their own misdeeds against the pleasure 
of our host, the Class of '95. 

While not yet ready to receive your thank offerings, 
the Class of '95 craves the pleasure of your R. S. V. P. 
to its invitation. 

Address your replies to the Class Secretary, William 
S. Tyler, 30 Church Street, New York City. 

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CHARLES AMOS ANDREWS 




LANDERGREN ARMSTRONG 



FAMOUS MEN OF A FAMOUS CLASS 



CHARLES AMOS ANDREWS, B.A. 

OA0-OBK 
Industrial Manager, 
Waban, Massachusetts. 



"Andy" was "some boy" in college. He took the 
Thompson Latin prize, gave eclat to the *'Lif' as member 
of its Editorial Board, added fun as an editor of The 
Olio, drew applause as Grove Poet, and left college drag- 
ging a large <E> B K key. Yet he says his favorite college 
sport was "religion," and his ambition in 1895 was "to 
get out of debt." 

"Andy" was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, July 2, 
1872. 

He prepared for college in the Palmer High School 
and in Worcester Academy. 

After leaving Amherst he taught Latin and history 
three years in the Holyoke High School, then became 
Special Agent in the New England Department of the 
Pennsylvania Mutual Life Insurance Co., with head- 
quarters at Holyoke. 

From 1904 to 1905 he was a Member of the Massachu- 
setts House of Representatives. From 1907 to 1915 he 
was Deputy Tax Commissioner of Massachusetts. Since 
1915 he served as Industrial Manager, and is now Treas- 
urer of the Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co., Gloucester, 
Massachusetts. If you want "any fish to-day!" go to 
"Andy." 

On New Year's Day, 1901, he married Helen M. Slade 
of Quincy, Massachusetts. He has three children, Sid- 
ney, 1901 (now a student in Amherst), John, 1905, who 
is preparing for Amherst, and Helen, 1908. 

He is a member of the Brae Burn Country Club, the 
Rockport Golf Club, the Waban Neighborhood Club, the 
National Economic Association, and the National Tax 
Association. 

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He has given many public addresses on taxation, in 
Massachusetts, and in other New England states, and in 
Colorado and California, and he has written a number 
of magazine articles on the general subject of taxation, 
in which he is an expert. It is even said that he can 
somewhat understand the Income Tax Blank. 

During the war "Andy" did good service for the Red 
Cross and other war work. 

He has traveled in Nova Scotia, Canada, and through- 
out the entire United States. 

Typhoid fever at one time tried to carry "Andy" 
away, but we are glad to record that he is still smiling 
and happy, and will greet you at Amherst in June, as 
hale and hearty, and good-spirited a chap as ever lived. 



LANDERGREN ARMSTRONG, 

AA$ 
Publicity Agent, 
Brown-Lipe Gear Co., Syracuse, New York. 

Landergren Armstrong is the son of Collin Armstrong 
of '77, well known to all Amherst men. 

"Shorty's" good Class spirit is shown by his letter, in 
which he says: 

"I am with and for '95 all the time; so, to help make 
the responses 100 per cent, here goes for my general 
confession. 

"I was born, etc., in Chicago, December 28, 1871; did 
the Topsy act in New Jersey and New York; prepared 
at Dwight School, New York; left college in the middle 
of Sophom.ore year; clerked in a bank and a broker's 
office for a year, and then was connected with the New 
York News Bureau, a financial news agency, until 1908. 
In that year I came to Syracuse to do the advertising for 
the Crouse-Hinds Co., — manufacturers of electric ap- 
pliances, — and remained there until a year ago, when 
the Brown-Lipe Gear Co., — automobile transmissions, 

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AUBREY TRULL BARNES 




CLINTON EDWARD BELL 



AMHERST '95 

clutches and control sets — drafted me to care for its 
publicity, etc. 

**I was married November 1, 1897, to Cora Abbott, of 
Boston, and she has 'stood for me' ever since. We have a 
daughter, Dorothy, who was born December 3, 1898. 
She got foolish and married a Detroit man in October, 
1918. Just a month ago she made me a Grandfather of 
(I hope) a future Amherst man, and — damn prohibition! 

"My conscience isn't bothering me excessively ; my di- 
gestion is good; I like my work; enjoy good company 
and home brew; can fill in at a poker game if the stakes 
are moderate, and hold the dummy record at golf. I 
have lived the simple life without flourishes, honors or 
notoriety. I don't envy those better men of '95 who have 
*done things,' but have lots of admiration for them. More 
power to Coolidge and the others ! 

"Unless a calamity prevents, I will see you in Amherst 
next June, and, so that you can recognize me, I am send- 
ing along my latest photo, taken last June. Gosh ! How 
the boy does hold his youth!" 

Just think! '95 is in the Grandfather class! Well! Well! 



CHARLES ROY BANGS, B.A.-LL.B. 

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Lawyer, 

11 Monroe Place, Brooklyn, New York. 

"Biffs" was born in Brooklyn, New York, January 30, 
1874, and prepared for college at the Brooklyn Latin 
School. 

You may have forgotten it, but he was for two years 
a member of the Cotillion Club at Amherst. 

"Biffs" says that his ambition in 1895 was "To gradu- 
ate." 

After three years as a law student in New York Law 
School, he entered the firm of Stetson, Jennings & Rus- 
sell of Brooklyn. 

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He has traveled in Egypt, Palestine, Panama, the 
West Indies and the Western part of the United States, 
as he says, "To see what it looks like." 

He is a member of the Crescent Athletic Club of 
Brooklyn. 

Bangs does not confess to the existence of a wife, and 
is therefore one of the shining eligibles of the class. 



AUBREY TRULL BARNES, B.S. 

AAO 
Manufacturer, 
Rockford, Illinois. 



"Shedsie," former member of the Football Team, of 
the Class Cider Team, of the Cotillion Club, and the 
Kellogg Fifteen, is now a manufacturer with the W. F. 
& John Barnes Co., makers of iron and woodworking ma- 
chinery, Rockford, Illinois. 

"Shedsie" is President and Manager of the Company, 
of which his brother, John Barnes, is Secretary and 
Organization Manager. 

"Shedsie" was bom September 30, 1872, in Rockford, 
Illinois, where he prepared for college. 

Immediately after graduation he joined his father's 
company, with which he has remained ever since, hold- 
ing various positions including those of Vice-President, 
Secretary, Treasurer and President. 

June 1, 1898, he married Katharine Keeler of Rock- 
ford, Illinois. He has one child, Barbara, 1900. 

"Shedsie" is evidently a docile husband, for he says 
he has traveled all over the United States and Canada, 
"Because wife made me, and business demanded." 

He is a member of the Chicago University Club, and 
the Rockford University Club. 

He writes that the above is "The only dope this mod- 
est sucker from Illinois can offer." 

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He says his first college scrape really happened before 
he got to college, for he was shut up in an upper berth 
by a Sophomore while on his way to Amherst as a Fresh- 
man, and has "Been short of breath ever since." 

He adds, "My saddest recollection is when I was 
flunked by Professor Emerson in Mineralogy, because I 
passed the examination at 94% without opening a text- 
book." 

"Shedsie" insists that he is "The only Amherst man in 
existence who has survived being blown up by a bomb, 
for the I. W. W. tried to spoil my classic shape." Fortu- 
nately for us, as well as for "Shedsie," the assassins 
failed. 

"Shedsie" says he did have many recollections of the 
past, but "They have been forgotten, and just as well." 



In Memoriam 
HENRY BEER. 

AY 

Henry Beer died before the college course was com- 
pleted. A happy, boyish figure, he was taken directly 
from college life into the life hereafter. 

He was born October 23, 1875, in New York City, 
where he prepared for college at Dr. Sachs' School. 

He had attended Amherst only six terms, when failing 
health obliged him to leave. 

He died of typhoid fever, February 22, 1894. 



FRANK MILTON BELDEN, B.S. 

AAO 

Merchant, 

302 Broadway, New York City. 

If you have been at any of the Class reunions you 
have seen "Frank" with his coat off, working might and 
main for the good of the Class. He has been at every 

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reunion, and no one has worked harder than he to make 
Class reunions a success. He certainly deserves a great 
deal of credit. He was for many years President of the 
Class, and he is still President of the Class affection 
and appreciation. 

Frank was born October 31, 1872, in Utica, New York. 
He prepared for college at Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn. 

For three years he was a member of the Amherst 
Athletic Team. He was Athletic Director, member of 
the Class Baseball Team, the Boston Relay Team, the 
Class Cider Team, Baseball Manager, member of the Co- 
tillion Club, and Business Manager of the greatest Olio 
that was ever published. You see, he was always a 
"hustler." 

Immediately after leaving Amherst he took up work 
with a bag factory in Brooklyn, New York. He has been 
engaged in the paper business for many years, although 
he studied for a short time in a medical school. He is 
now a merchant in the wholesale paper business with 
his headquarters at 302 Broadway, New York City. 

In 1917 and 1918 he performed valuable service as 
Deputy Fuel Administrator for King's County, New 
York. 

In 1918 he showed true Amherst spirit by serving in 
Y. M. C. A. work in France, where he did excellent 
service, and brought honor to himself and the Class. 

He is a member of the North Hempstead Country 
Club, the Plandome Field Club and the Crescent Athletic 
Club. 

December 20, 1910, he married Helen Washburn of 
Newtonville, Massachusetts. He has two children, Jean, 
1913, and Virginia, 1916. 

He says his greatest ambition is "to vote for Coolidge 
for President," and in that, as he was years ago in other 
matters, Frank is still our leader, and we are with him. 



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FRANK MILTON BELDEN 




EDWIN JUDSON BISHOP 



AMHERST '95 

CLINTON EDWARD BELL, B.A.-LL.B. 

0AX 
Lawyer, 
13 Avon Place, Springfield, Massachusetts. 

If, when you were in college, you ever chanced to en- 
gage in a boxing match with Clinton Edward Bell, you 
have not forgotten the event; nor have you forgotten 
that Bell was a College Senator for three years, a rare 
combination of "punch" and wisdom. 

Senator Bell was born in Southampton, Massachu- 
setts, June 8, 1872. He prepared for college by attend- 
ance at the Northampton High School, and by study 
with Professor Isaac Bridgeman. After he left Am- 
herst he studied three years in the Columbia Law School, 
practiced law three years in New York City, and has 
continued practice, since 1902, in Springfield, Massa- 
chusetts. 

February 14, 1900, he married Charlotte Webber of 
Northampton, Massachusetts, daughter of Professor 
George N. Webber, '52. He has one daughter, Lucie 
McMillan, born December 7, 1901. 

If you traveled in Europe on your summer vacations 
you may possibly have met Bell in some of his rambles 
in England, Scotland, Ireland and France. 



FREDERICK LEDYARD BILL, BjV. 

AY 
Farmer and Merchant, 
Marstons Mills, Massachusetts. 

"Bill" was born June 13, 1873, in Paxton, Massachu- 
setts. He prepared for college at Worcester Academy. 

In Amherst he was a member of The Olio Board. As 
Class Prophet, he might have saved "F. H. L." all the 
trouble of composing this book if he had only published 
his prophecies, read at Commencement in 1895. 

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In his letter, "Bill" dropped into college Latin and 
said: "You ask a heluvalot of questions." 

After he left Amherst, "Bill" taught for a year at 
Blandford, then for two years he attended the Harvard 
Law School. 

Overcome by ill health, he gave up his legal studies, 
and in 1902 became manager of the Crosby House. In 
1911 he turned to farming, and is now a member of the 
firm of Bill & Daniel, dealers in farm machines and im- 
plements, Marstons Mills, Massachusetts. 

May 15, 1906, he married Georgine Daniel, of Oster- 
ville, Massachusetts. 



EDWIN JUDSON BISHOP, B.S.-LL.B..C.P.A. 

Certii&ed Public Accountant, 

1693 Hague Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota. 

"Bish" was one of the famous orators in college. He 
was on the Kellogg Fifteen, won the Kellogg Declama- 
tion Prize, won a Lester Prize, was Ivy Orator, and a 
member of the Hyde Fifteen. 

He says his favorite college sport was "Holding Five 
Cards." 

He was born March 4, 1873, in Mankato, Minnesota. 

He prepared for college at the St. Paul High School, 
and Lake Forest Academy, Lake Forest, Illinois. 

After leaving Amherst, he was for three years Cashier 
of the St. Paul Trust Co. ; for five years Real Estate and 
Rental Agent for the same company; from 1903 to 1906, 
Auditor in the City Comptroller's office; from 1907 to 
1908, Chief Deputy of the City Comptroller's office; and 
in 1909, City Comptroller. Since 1910 he has been a 
Public Accountant, with the firm of Bishop, Brissman 
& Co. 

In 1918 he was Special Internal Revenue Agent in 
Washington and in St. Paul. 

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WILLIAM JOSEPH BOARDMAN 







ALLEN JOHNSON 
CHARLES THEODORE BURNETT 
DWIGHT WHITNEY MORROW 
MASTER JOHNSON 



AMHERST '95 

He has made a special study of municipal accountancy 
and government, as well as all the federal income and 
the war profits tax laws. 

"Bish" has given many public addresses on local and 
political subjects, on technical accountancy, and on the 
income tax. 

He took part in various war activities in St. Paul. 

He is a member of the Elks, of the Sons of Victory, 
the Minneapolis Club, the St. Paul Athletic Club and the 
University Golf Club. 

He has traveled in many parts of the United States. 

June 19, 1911, he married Catherine Dorothy Mingaye 
of St. Paul. 

He says, "I am looking forward with great delight to 
seeing the boys once more in June." 



ULYSSES JEFFERSON BLAIR, B.A. 

Advertising Expert, 

6748 Rhodes Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. 

Blair was one of the quiet and retiring members of 
the Class. He was born January 6, 1867, in Edwards- 
ville, Illinois. 

He prepared for college at the Alton High School, and 
went first to Shurtleff College, Illinois. From there he 
came to Amherst in Sophomore Year. 

For more than a year after leaving Amherst he studied 
chemistry in Chicago University. 

June 23, 1897, he married Pelagie Thomas of Alton, 
Illinois. 

He has three children, Gladys, 18 ; Iverson, 15 ; and An- 
toinette, 13. 

He was for three years an Advertising Expert in 

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Chicago, and for four years with the General Chemical 
Co., manufacturers of Nitric Acid. 

He is now stock keeper for the Sherwin-Williams Co., 
Paint Makers. 

Blair writes: "If I tried to write all that was of in- 
terest to me while at Amherst, I should be compelled to 
write a whole volume." He remembers particularly 
"Bishop's coming down to the Gym to play for anybody 
that wanted to practice the drill." 

Blair was at the recent Chicago dinner. Those who 
saw him say he has changed very little in appearance. 



EDWARD HENRY BLISS 

0AX 
Farmer, 
Pepperell, Massachusetts. 

Modest, retiring and yet friendly, "Eddie" Bliss culti- 
vated the Amherst spirit, until the Fall term of Junior 
year. Then he left college and became a teacher at 
Franklin, New Hampshire, not far from Center Harbor, 
New Hampshire, where he was born October 7, 1870, and 
not far from where he fitted for college at Tilton, New 
Hampshire. 

After a year of teaching Bliss took up civil engineer- 
ing in the city of Boston for four years, and then en- 
tered into real estate work from 1899 to 1902 and from 
1909 to 1913. He carried on the work of a farmer from 
1903 to 1908, and has been engaged in that work from 
1914 to the present, providing food for the rest of us, 
and thereby forming a vertebra in the backbone of the 
country. 

Bliss says he has traveled only in the eastern part of 
the United States, but he seems to have made one nota- 
ble excursion out of the country, for in September, 1911, 
he married Ida G. Borden of Nova Scotia. 

As the result of much outdoor life and sound Amherst 
thinking in the open. Bliss says he is "vulgarly healthy." 

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He has turned some of his energy into work for the Red 
Cross and the Nursing Association, into the giving of a 
few public addresses, and work for the Pepperell Men's 
Club and the Grange, and lifts his voice like the lark as 
member of a male quartet. 



WILLIAM JOSEPH BOARDMAN, B.A. 

AKE 
Advertising, 
237 West 74th Street, New York City. 

"Boardy" was the good boy of the Class, for you re- 
member he won the Porter Admission Prize. In order 
to bear his honors properly he let his hair grow long, 
joined the ''Lit" Board, and ended up as Ivy Poet. In- 
cidentally he won the Kent Essay Prize in English Lit- 
erature. 

The future distinguished litterateur was born July 13, 
1873, at Dracut, Massachusetts. He is a minister's son 
who turned out well. "Boardy" is wedded to the nine 
muses alone, scorning all earthly helpmates. 

He is a member of the Crescent Athletic Club and of 
the Boston Athletic Club. 

Boardman has traveled in the West Indies, in France, 
Canada and in the eastern part of the United States. 

He was for a year teacher in a New Jersey Military 
Academy, then Business Manager of The Critic, New 
York City, and is now in the advertising business with 
the George Batten Co., New York City. 

Boardman thinks reading Greek with "Gibbie" one 
of his most notable college adventures, and he fondly re- 
members certain "trips" to "Hamp" in pre-amendment 
days, as well as "trout fishing with Phillips within sight 
of the College tower." 

In his letter he says, "I play auction indifferently, and 
golf worse, smoke too much, but do not drink too much ; 
read everything worth while that comes within reach; 

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estimate Littell's Living Age the best American Weekly 
publication; and have a placid disposition which is not 
unanimously admitted by entourage." But he ends up 
well when he says, "'95 is an extra worth while bunch." 



In Memoriam 

OLIN ROYAL BOOTH, B.A. 

First Lieutenant, U. S. A. 

Who does not remember rosy-cheeked Booth, Tennis 
Director for the Class in Senior year! 

He was born February 11, 1873, in Union, Connecticut. 

He prepared for college at the Hitchcock Free High 
School, Brimfield, Mass. 

To the astonishment of every other member of the 
Class, Booth joined the Seventh United States Cavalry, 
in which he became private, and corporal of Troop E, 
and served in the deserts of Arizona for three years, 
1895-1898, leading the rough life of a soldier. At one 
time he was a member of an expedition into Mexico in 
pursuit of hostile Indians. Then he was moved to differ- 
ent camps and military posts throughout the United 
States. 

In the Spanish War Booth saw service for his 
country as Second Lieutenant with the Eleventh Infan- 
try at Ponce, Aguadilla, and Mayaguez, Porto Rico. He 
rose to the position of First Lieutenant in the regular 
Army. He took part in General Smith's exciting cam- 
paign in Samar, in the Philippine Islands. 

Then he was stricken with tuberculosis. Although he 
was tenderly cared for in military hospitals for a long 
time he finally passed away. 

During his sickness Booth wrote bright and cheer- 
ful letters, full of boyish fun, and always spoke en- 
thusiastically of Amherst and the Class. He was always 
loyal to his Class, and constantly kept in touch with vari- 
ous classmates. 

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REUBEN WESLEY BURNHAM 




EN 
OF '95 




EMMONS BRYANT 



AMHERST '95 

"Dusty" Rhodes writes : "Do not forget to record the 
splendid service of Lieutenant 0. R. Booth for our Coun- 
try. He died from a malady contracted in line of duty. 
He was often my guest in my western home. All who 
knew him in the West loved and respected him." 



WALTER WILLIAMS BRECK, B.A. 

0AX 
Accountant, 
20 Waterbury Road, Upper Montclair, New Jersey. 

In Sophomore year, Breck entered Amherst from Bos- 
ton University. He had fitted for college at the Cony 
High School, Augusta, Maine, the city where he was 
born on February 26, 1873. Possibly you remember 
Breck's activity on the tennis court. 

For a time, after leaving college, he was clerk in the 
Treasurer's oifice of the Telegraph & Telephone Co., 
Summerville, Massachusetts, and he is still connected 
with the American Telegraph & Telephone Co., for which 
he is now an accountant. 

April 17, 1916, he married Frances Haskell of Augus- 
ta, Maine. He has two children, Robert Williams, 1917, 
and Paul Bussell, 1919, both of whom are headed toward 
Amherst, and are due to arrive some time in 1933 or 
1935, ready to carry on the true Amherst spirit. 



In Memoriam 

ROBERT BRIDGMAN, B.A. 

The whole class was saddened by the news of "Bob" 
Bridgman's death. It seemed impossible that such a 
hearty, happy, buoyant spirit could pass away so early. 
As we read his name today we hear once more his strong 
voice leading in the old chorus, 

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**We must have old Ireland free! 

The poor and oppressed, 

They must have rest, 

While the Channel rolls between!" 

The Class had no stronger, leading personality, no 
more happy and vibrant nature than "Bob's." 

He was born November 24, 1874, in Brooklyn, New 
York. He prepared for college at Adelphi Academy, 
Brooklyn. 

In Amherst he was a member of the Freshman Base- 
ball Team and an Editor of the greatest Olio. He was 
also on the Kellogg Five and the Hyde Fifteen. He 
won a Lester prize. For two years he was Class Vice 
President. 

After graduation "Bob" entered at once into news- 
paper work, serving with The New York Sun, The New 
York Tribune and The New York Times. 

June 19, 1901, he married Marion Claproth. He left 
a daughter, Katharine, 1902, and one son, Herbert, 1904, 
who is to enter Amherst this year. 

Saxe Hanford writes, "After leaving college the man I 
saw most frequently and knew most intimately of our 
Class was Bridgman. I saw him at all hours of the 
day and night in his office at The New York Times, and 
he was always the same genial, witty fellow that we knew 
in college. He always claimed to have nothing to do, 
while in reality he was one of the hardest working men 
on The Times staff." 



EMMONS BRYANT, B.A. 

Banker, 

390 North Broadway, Yonkers, New York. 



Emmons is another of the Class of '95 who deserves the 
highest credit. He gave up everything in the World War, 
became Captain in the Quartermaster's Department, and 



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finally Major of Engineers, serving in this country and in 
France, where he took part in the various episodes of the 
war. Such voluntary service, performed by a man be- 
yond military age, cannot be praised too highly. It is 
the sort of thing of which Amherst is proud. 

Emmons was born July 10, 1872, in Everett, Massachu- 
setts. He prepared for college at Worcester Academy. 

In Amherst he displayed ability on the Kellogg Five, 
and the Hyde Fifteen, and, in two years, on the Class 
Cider Team, winning cider for himself and others. 

After leaving Amherst he taught in Bridgeport, Con- 
necticut, in Staten Island Academy, New York, at Corn- 
wall-on-Hudson, New York, and in Newark Academy, 
Newark, New Jersey. In 1903 he entered manufacturing 
with the Solway Process Co., Niagara Falls. He was 
Treasurer, Receiver, and Special Agent for the By- 
products Paper Co., Niagara Falls, New York. He was a 
paper manufacturer from 1905 up to the time when the 
World War interrupted his activities. Since his release 
from service he has been with the Guaranty Trust Co., 
New York City. 

He married Dorothy W. Lyon and has two children, 
Katharine, 1904, and Emmons Jr., 1909. 

He is a 32nd degree Mason, and a member of the Army 
and Navy Club. 



EDWARD PAYSON BULLARD, JR. 

Manufacturer, 
Stratford, Connecticut. 

Althouerh Bullard left college during Freshman year, he 
has kept in touch with Amherst ever since. 

He is now President of the Bullard Machine Tool Co., 
Bridgeport, Connecticut, President of the Bullard Engrav- 
ing Co., and Director of the First National Bank. 

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"Payse" was born in Columbus, Ohio, June 10, 1873. 
He prepared for college at Williston Seminary, East- 
hampton, Massachusetts. 

After one term at Amherst he took up work with the 
Bullard Machine Tool Co., for which he was for a time 
Manager of the European branch. He is an expert me- 
chanical engineer. 

August 17, 1897, he married Mamie Deacon of Bridge- 
port, Connecticut. He has two children, Jean and Ed- 
ward. 



REUBEN WESLEY BURNHAM, B.A.-M.A. 

OA0-cE>BK 
Educator, 
1801 Dorchester Road, Brooklyn, New York. 

"Slam! Bang! Crash! Order! Count fours! col- 
umn right, 1-2-3, 1-2-3!" There you are, — back in the 
gymnasium again, after "Old Doc" has rescued it from 
pandemonium, and Captain Burnham is holding forth. 

The future Napoleon of the Gymnasium was born 
August 3, 1873, in Essex, Massachusetts. He prepared 
for college in the Gloucester High School. 

On his arrival at Amherst, he promptly became Gym- 
nasium Captain, and held that distinguished honor four 
years. Everyone expected him to grow a long beard and 
become a second "Old Doc." 

Burnham was a member of the Class athletic team two 
years, member of the College Choir four years, member 
of the Glee Club three years. Assistant Leader of the 
Glee Club, Football Director, twice a member of the 
Kellogg Fifteen, Class Marshal and Commencement Ora- 
tor, — a notable record. 

After "Cap" left Amherst, he became teacher of sci- 
ence in the Gloucester High School. From 1900 up to 
the present, he has taught evening classes in Pratt In- 
stitute, Brooklyn. 

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KIMBALL GLEASON COLBY 




GEORGE REID CRITCHLOW 



AMHERST '95 

From 1899 until 1915, he was teacher of science in 
Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, New York. 

In 1916 he became Chief Co-Ordinator for the Depart- 
ment of Education, New York City. 

He won the degree of M. A. in pure science from Co- 
lumbia in 1914, and in education from Teachers' College 
in the same year. 

Burnham is the author of ''Mathematics for Machin- 
ists," published by Wiley & Sons. 

He has made a special study of the training of teach- 
ers for vocational work. 

June 29, 1897, he married Alice Ford of Gloucester, 
Massachusetts. He has one child, Frederick, 1903. 



CHARLES THEODORE BURNETT, B.A.-M.A.-PH.D. 

WY-OBK 
Educator, 
Brunswick, Maine. 



"Charlie," — we beg his pardon, — Professor Burnett, 
one time Monitor and terrifier of the absentee, winner 
of the first Hutchinson Greek Prize, winner of the first 
Freshman Latin Prize, Orator on the Commencement 
stage. Class Poet, member of the ''Lit" Board, member 
of the Glee Club, and, — let us not omit it, — member of 
the Cotillion Club, was born June 24, 1873, in Spring- 
field, Massachusetts. 

Burnett prepared for college at the Greenfield High 
School, and dropped into Amherst unostentatiously but 
thoroughly. He had prepared to hit Latin and Greek, 
and any other study, good sound whacks. He exercised 
the habit so thoroughly that he has been going after en- 
cyclopedias and other heavyweight volumes ever since. 

From 1895 to 1896 he taught at Tome Institute, Port 
Deposit, Maryland; from 1896 to 1898 in the Hill School, 
Pottstown, Pennsylvania; then from 1898 to 1903 he 
was a graduate student at Harvard University, winning 
an "M. A." in 1900 and a "Ph. D." in 1903. Since then, 

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with the exception of a sabbatical year in 1912 and 1913 
in Europe, he has been teaching. At present he is Pro- 
fessor of Psychology in Bowdoin, following in the foot- 
steps of our beloved Professor Garman. 

He has traveled in Jamaica, in Europe, along the lands 
of the Mediterranean, along the Pacific Coast, and in 
Alaska. 

December 16, 1914, he married Sue Winchell, of 
Brunswick, Maine. He is the only one of the class who 
has reported twins, — Bettina and Audrey, 1917. 



WILLIAM BURR, B.S., 

AY 
Manufacturer, 
Spring Valley, New York. 

Burr was born April 14, 1873, in Spring Valley, New 
York. He prepared for college at the Collegiate Insti- 
tute, Hackettstown, New Jersey. 

He went first for a year to New York University, and 
entered Amherst in Sophomore year. 

After graduation he became a teacher, and taught 
in Public Schools at West Shokan, Illinois, at Sloatsburg, 
New York, and at Suffern, New York, until 1899. 

He then entered into the manufacture of iron at Mah- 
wah. New Jersey. 



WILLIAM BUNTON CHASE, B.A. 

AAO-OBK 
Editor, 
The Times, New York City. 

"Bill" Chase is a member of '94, of '95 and also of '96, 
for he was obliged to leave college on account of ill 
health, entered '95 from '94, and completed his course 
-with the Class of '96. 

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RICHARD FALLS DANA 




MRS. FRANK C. DAVIS 

WALLACE DAVIS 

FRANK CURTIS DAVIS 



AMHERST '95 

His excellent scholarship made him a Monitor. He 
won the second Freshman Latin Prize, and one-half the 
Walker Mathematics Prize. He was a member of the 
Kellogg Fifteen, Class Vice-President of '94, Treasurer 
and Chairman of the Lecture Course Committee, Chair- 
man of the "Lit" Board, Chairman of the '94 Reunion 
Committee, and member of the Cotillion Club. 

"Bill" was born July 25, 1872, in Syracuse, New York, 
where he prepared for college in the local High School. 

Immediately after leaving college he took up Journal- 
ism, and for many years contributed regularly to The 
New York Evening Sun, writing one of the features of 
that paper, a brilliant and discriminating column or 
more on music and the opera. He is now Music Critic 
for The New York Times. 

In 1907 he married Elizabeth Smith of Brooklyn, New 
York. He has one child, Ellen, 1908. 

"Bill" is a member of the A A O Club of New York, and 
of the Fresh Air Club, one of his particular hobbies be- 
ing mountain climbing. 

"Bill" has been a wanderer on the face of the earth, 
and has traveled hither and yon — Quebec, New Bruns- 
wick, Newfoundland, Labrador, South America, England, 
France, Switzerland, Panama, California, Japan, China, 
and the Philippines. 

He is the author of Pat Crowe, Aviator, and of many 
articles on music. 

"Bill" is an indefatigable worker, a strong man in his 
profession, and a genial, kindly soul whom we still claim 
as our own. 



KIMBALL GLEASON COLBY, B.A. 

Publisher, 

]Melhuen, Massachusetts. 

"Cully," who for three years led the college baseball 
team, who was member of the Kellogg Five, Chairman 
of the Junior Promenade Committee, winner of a Lester 

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Prize, member of the Senior Dramatics, and of the Co- 
tillion Club, and Chairman of the Senior Dramatics Com- 
mittee, has developed into the publisher of the Lawrence 
Telegram, Lawrence, Massachusetts, an afternoon daily. 

Colby is Director of the National Bank of Methuen, 
Trustee of the Broadway Savings Bank of Lawrence, 
and Director of the Morris Plan Bank of Lawrence. 

For six years he was member of the School Board of 
Methuen. Since 1918 he has been a member of the 
Water Board of Methuen, a good job in these prohibi- 
tion days. 

"Cully" is a member of the University Club of Boston, 
the Tedesco Country Club, the North Andover Country 
Club, and the Merrimac Valley Country Club. 

He is a Knight Templar and a 32nd degree Mason. 

"Cully" was born February 9, 1873, in Boston. 

Immediately after leaving Amherst he studied law at 
the Harvard Law School. For a short time he taught at 
Lakewood, N. J. For two years he was with the Globe 
Worsted Mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. 

In 1900 he became connected with the Lawrence Tele- 
gram, of which he is now the Publisher. 

Sad to relate, in spite of the good examples set him, 
"Cully" persists in remaining a bachelor. 

On the other hand, he has done something that we 
should like to say of every member of the Class: he has 
attended every Class reunion since graduation. 



ISAAC MAYHEW COMPTON, B.A. 

Minister, 

StaflfordviUe, New Jersey. 

Of course you remember "Isaac Mayhew." He was 
born September 2, 1866, in Roadstown, New Jersey. He 
prepared for college in the South Jersey Institute, 
Bridgeton, New Jersey. 

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AMHERST *95 

After graduation he studied in Newton Theological 
Seminary. 

In 1896 he was ordained as a Baptist Minister. 

He has held pastorates in Brookline, Vermont, Shafts- 
bury, Vermont, and other places. 

He entered mercantile business in Staffordville, New 
Jersey, where he was for a time Postmaster. 

July 16, 1896, he married Elizabeth McGalliard of 
Bridgeton, New Jersey. He has three children. 



CALVIN COOLIDGE, B.A.-LL.D. 

OTA 
Governor of Massachusetts, 
21 Massasoit Street, Northampton, Massachusetts. 

Other folks may think Calvin Coolidge is famous be- 
cause he has been a Member of the City Council of 
Northampton, City Solicitor for Northampton, Clerk of 
the Courts of Hampshire County, Member of the Massa- 
chusetts House of Representatives, Mayor of Northamp- 
ton, Member of the Massachusetts Senate, Lieutenant 
Governor of Massachusetts, and is now Governor of 
Massachusetts, and may become President of the United 
States. 

We of '95 know that he is famous just because he is 
Calvin Coolidge. That is why we used to listen so eager- 
ly to him when he was in college, and why we made him 
Grove Orator in Senior year. Whether on the Hyde 
Fifteen, or at a boarding house table, or anywhere else, 
when **C. C." spoke he always said something worth 
hearing. In Senior year he won the medal offered by 
the Sons of the Revolution for the best essay on "The 
Principles of the War for American Independence," com- 
peting with undergraduates in all American colleges. 

When he was born the entire country set off fireworks 
and sent up rockets, as if with full knowledge that a 
great man had arrived, for he was born July 4, 1872, in 
Plymouth, Vermont. 

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AMHERST '95 

"Calvin" prepared for college at Black River Academy, 
Ludlow, Vermont. After leaving Amherst he studied law 
in the office of Hammond & Field, of Northampton, and 
was admitted to the bar in 1897. In 1899 he became City- 
Councillor of Northampton, and entered upon a most 
highly honorable career, holding the offices mentioned in 
the opening of this sketch. 

He has traveled in the eastern part of the United 
States, and as far west as Arizona. 

Coolidge has made a great number of brilliantly epi- 
grammatical speeches, founded, as all Amherst men 
know, solidly on the good old Amherst spirit, and on 
the truths taught by Professor Garman. The hills and 
the classrooms of Amherst echo in his speeches. 

The best of these remarkable addresses, filled with 
common sense and idealism, have been published by 
Houghton Mifflin & Co. in a book called Have Faith in 
Massachusetts. 

Coolidge is a member of the Union Club of Boston, 
and the University Club of Boston. 

The fact that he is risen high in public office and that 
he is demanded by many for the position of President 
of the United States, does not rest at all upon self-seek- 
ing ambition, for he does not seek offices: offices seek 
him. His courage in mastering the Police Strike in 
Boston is only a part of the rock-ribbed integrity of 
character that we all recognized when he was in Am- 
herst twenty-five years ago. 

We in '95 do not honor him for his high offices; we 
honor him just as all people do, because he is Calvin 
Coolidge, — like Abraham Lincoln, a unique personality, 
a real man in an age when the world needs real men. 

October 4, 1905, he married Grace A. Goodhue of Bur- 
lington, Vermont. He has two children, John, 1906, and 
Calvin, 1908. 



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JOHN PERCY DEERING 




ROBERT WAYLAND DUNBAR 



AMHERST '95 

GEORGE REID CRITCHLOW, B.A.M.D.-F.A.C^. 

ATA-OBK-OAT 
Physician and Surgeon, 
647 Lafayette Avenue, Buffalo, New York. 

"Critch" was one of our acquisitions in Sophomore 
year, when he entered Amherst from the University of 
Worcester, for which he had prepared in the New 
Brighton High School, in the town of New Brighton, 
Pennsylvania, where he was born August 19, 1873. 

Perhaps you remember his eagle eye as Monitor in 
Senior year, and his oratory as Commencement Speaker. 

After he left Amherst, he studied three years in 
Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

In 1898 he was Resident Physician and Surgeon in 
the Homeopathic Hospital, Buffalo, New York. Since 
1899, he has been in private practice in Buffalo. 

Critchlow was Surgeon in the Homeopathic Hospital, 
Gynaecological Surgeon in the Erie County Hospital, 
Consulting Surgeon in the State Hospital, President of 
the Medical Board of the Buffalo Hospital, President of 
the New York Homeopathic Medical Society of Western 
New York, President of the National OAF, Member of 
the Executive Committee of the Buffalo Chapter of the 
Red Cross, as well as a member of the Buffalo O B K 
Club, and the Western New York Amherst Alumni Asso- 
ciation. 

"Critch" is also a member of the University Club, the 
Park Club, the Canoe Club, and the Automobile Club, 
and what, in his handwriting, looks like the "Saturn 
Club" (but we doubt our reading). 

He was an editor of the Medical College paper in his 
Medical College days, and in recent years has contributed 
to many medical journals. 

December 27, 1904, he married Kate Belle Buell of 

Burlington, Vermont. Three of his four children are 

now living, Margaret, 1909, Caroline, 1912, and Buell, 
1915. 

"Critch" has traveled extensively in Europe, and has 
studied in the hospitals of London, Paris and Vienna. 

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One of the noblest things that can be said of him is 
that he gave up his valuable practice as surgeon and 
served as Captain of the Medical Corps in France during 
two years of the great World War. He is now one of the 
best known surgeons of Western New York. 

But do you remember how he used to slam the ball 
when he played tennis? 



RICHARD FALLS DANA, B.A. 

AKE 

Lawyer, 

Newcastle, Pennsylvania. 



Dana was one of our good acquisitions in Sophomore 
year. 

"Dick" was born April 1, 1871, in Newcastle, Pennsyl- 
vania. He prepared for college in Colgate Academy, 
Hamilton, New York. 

After one year in Colgate University he transferred 
to Amherst. 

In Amherst Dana did good service on the College 
Banjo Club. 

From 1895 to 1897 he studied law with Dana & Long, 
Newcastle, Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the bar 
in 1897. Since that time he has practiced law in New- 
castle. 

For his sake we regret to say that he is still unmarried. 

He writes: "I expect to be at Amherst for the Re- 
union, and look forward with great pleasure to the time. 
It surely will be good to see you all again. I hope you 
will all bring your wives and children." 



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LUCIUS ROOT EASTMAN 




WARNER WARREN ELLIOTT 



AMHERST '95 



FRANK CURTISS DAVIS, B.S.-M.A.-M.D. 

AKE 
712 Seventh Avenue, Lewistown, Montana. 



"Frank" was born July 29, 1873, in Kankakee, Illinois. 
He prepared for college in the Minneapolis High School. 

In Amherst he was an all-around good fellow, popular 
with all his classmates. 

Davis was Tennis Director for two years, and Baseball 
Director in Junior year. He gained a place on the Kel- 
logg Fifteen, and displayed dancing abilities in the Co- 
tillion Club. 

After graduation he entered the Medical School of 
Johns Hopkins University, from which he was gradu- 
ated in 1899. 

He won the degree of M. A. from Amherst in 1898. 

Since his attainment of the medical degree he prac- 
ticed as a physician and surgeon in Minneapolis, and, in 
the Attix Clinic, Lewistown, Montana. 

He is a specialist in surgery of the eye, ear, nose and 
throat. 

For sixteen months Davis was a surgeon in the Base 
Hospital in Vienna, Austria, where he was studying at 
the opening of the World War. In 1918 he became Cap- 
tain in the U. S. Army medical service, and served at 
Camp Lewis, Washington. 

Davis has traveled all over the United States, and 
throughout Europe, where, in two different periods, he 
spent much time in studying surgery with the greatest 
European surgeons. 

With all his work he has written numerous articles' 
for medical journals. 

He is a member of the Rotary Club, the Judith Club, 
and the Lewistown Country Club. 

September 25, 1916, Davis married Frieda UUig of 
Vienna, Austria. He has one child, Wallace, 1918. 

"Frank" is planning to come all the way from Mon- 
tana to attend the Reunion. Good for him! 

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AMHERST '95 

MOSES TAGGART DAY, LL,B. 

AY 
Lawyer, 
1212 Prudential Building, Buffalo, New York. 



Day was with the Class only two terms, leaving Am- 
herst after the close of Freshman year. 

He was born May 11, 1872, in Batavia, New York, 
where he prepared for college at Union School. 

When Day went from Amherst he entered Williams, 
where he studied during 1893 and 1894. Later he studied 
law in Batavia and at the New York University Law 
School. He was admitted to the bar in 1896, and 
took up practice in Buffalo, where he still resides. 

September 12, 1900, he married Pauline Town Mil- 
lener. He has three sons. 



JOHN PERCY DEERING, B.A. 

OTA 
J59 Main Street, Biddeford, Maine. 

Do you remember the enormous turnip that Percy 
used to call a watch? It was hung on a log chain such 
as they use up in Saco, and Percy used to spend his 
time in "Gibbie's" Greek recitations, seeing how many 
revolutions to the minute the turnip could revolve at the 
end of the log chain, and "Gibbie" would lean over and 
say in plain Greek, nYT0ATYnnYT0 ATYH 

"Percy" was always "some boy." Perhaps by the 
time this book is printed he will be Governor of Maine. 
Anyway, we hope so, for the more States '95 governs, 
the more glory for old Amherst. 

"Percy" was born September 26, 1873, in Saco, Maine. 
He prepared for college at Thornton Academy, Saco, 
Maine. 

In Amherst he displayed great talent on the Fresh- 
man Baseball Team, and the Freshman Athletic Team, 
and in Junior and Senior year on the Football Team. 

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He was a renowned member of The Olio Board, and in 
Senior year was, besides the Class Prophet, the only one 
who might have written this book, for he was Class His- 
torian and Soothsayer. 

After leaving Amherst he began his auspicious ca- 
reer at Sing Sing, — not in the crowded apartments there, 
but in the local school. Having the good sense to give 
up teaching, he studied law with J. 0. Bradbury of Saco, 
Maine, and was admitted to the Maine bar (the Maine 
bar was always dry) February 2, 1898. Since that 
time he has been a lawyer at Biddeford, Maine. 

Deering was a Member of the Maine House of Rep- 
resentatives, City Solicitor for Saco, Judge of the Mu- 
nicipal Court of Saco, Member of the Maine State Sen- 
ate, President of the York County Children's Aid Society, 
and he has been active in much Civic work. He is a 
strong possibility for the Governorship of Maine. 

He has traveled throughout the United States and 
Canada, and has made two visits to Europe, and also, he 
records, "two visits to New Jersey." 

"Percy" is a member of many Masonic bodies. 

October 18, 1903, he married Lucy Bryant of Bidde- 
ford, Maine. 

He declines to add anything serious for the benefit of 
the class, saying, "MY serious and wise thoughts I 
charge money for, as that is the only way I make my 
living. I know nothing pious that I could add that would 
help any of the Class. Their habits are too firmly fixed 
now for me to change them by any pious ideas of mine." 



ROBERT WAYLAND DUNBAR, B.A.-B.D. 

Minister, 

Greenville, New Hampshire. 

Surely you remember Dunbar, and the way he won the 
first prize in the half mile run at the N. E. I. A. A. meet 
in Sophomore year! Dunbar, you know, was one of our 

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champions in track athletics. He was Captain of the 
Athletic Team, and Athletic Director. Not only that, 
but he was a member of the Alumnus Missionary Com- 
mittee, which shows that even at college he began com- 
bining muscle and Gospel. 

Dunbar was born January 24, 1872, in Portland, 
Maine, where he prepared for college. 

After graduation from Amherst he went to Andover 
Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 
1898. From 1899 until 1903 he was Pastor at North 
Chelmsford, Massachusetts; from 1904 until 1908 at 
Haverhill, Massachusetts; from 1909 until 1918, at Mil- 
bury, Massachusetts; and since 1919, at Greenville, New 
Hampshire. He has made a special study of the Psy- 
chology of Religion. 

Dunbar has edited the ^'History of Milhury" and 
"Andover Seminary Necrology." He has also written 
reports and items for The Congregationalist. He has 
given a great number of public addresses, including 
travel talks and patriotic addresses. 

During the war he served nobly in the Y. M. C. A. 
service in a hospital train for wounded Canadians. 

He has traveled in England, Belgium, Germany, Switz- 
erland and France. 

Under the head of "Unusual Experiences, Accidents, 
Illnesses or Adventures," he records that twice former 
President Taft appeared in his congregation, an encore 
worth recording. 

June 20, 1899, he married Selina Cook of Portland, 
Maine. President Roosevelt may not have visited our 
former track athlete, but he certainly would have con- 
gratulated him warmly, for Dunbar has eight children, 
Ruth, 1900, Esther, 1903, Martha, 1904, Charles, 1906, 
Robert, 1911, Elizabeth, 1913, Florence, 1915, and Selina, 
1916. 

Oil painting and camping out are minor recreations 
when he seeks diversion from paying shoe bills and 
buying new hats for the octette. 



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GEORGE WALTER FISKE 




THE 




RS 

) OF '95 

95 




HOWARD DEAN FRENCH 



AMHERST '95 
LUCIUS ROOT EASTMAN, B.A..LL.B. 

Ben 

Merchant, 

Hills Brothers Co., 375 Washington Street, New York City. 



"Root" arrived on earth July 29, 1874, in Framing- 
ham, Massachusetts. He prepared for college in Fram- 
ingham High School. 

While in Amherst he turned toward literature, being 
one of the Kellogg Fifteen, a winner of a Lester prize, 
and for two years a member of The Student Board. 

When Eastman left college he taught for two years in 
the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and in a New York 
Private School. Then he turned to the Boston Univer- 
sity Law School, from which he was graduated in 1898. 

He set up his office in Boston in connection with the 
Dean of the Law School, and for a year was Lecturer on 
Negotiable Paper in the Boston Evening Law School. 

After several years as a lawyer he turned, in 1905, to 
business. He is now President of the Hills Bros. Com- 
pany, whose Dromedary Dates and other delicacies and 
edibles are consumed by all wise people. While Lucius 
sleeps, his caravans on the other side of the world are 
moving across the deserts bringing dates destined for 
America. "Root" is a modern Merchant of Venice, with 
Argosies on every sea. 

Lucius is also Trustee and Director in various busi- 
ness, church and philanthropic organizations, and he 
has been a member of various town committees in Fram- 
ingham and Montclair. 

He is a member of the Union League Club, the Bank- 
ers' Club, the Upper Montclair Country Club, the Mont- 
clair Athletic Club, and various other organizations. 

Travel has taken Eastman throughout the Eastern 
part of the United States and Canada, and to England 
and France. 

June 14, 1905, he married Eva L. Hills. He has three 
children, Margaret, 1907, John, 1910, and Lucius Root 
Eastman, 1913, — owner of the old family name, — so that 
when you are a little more bald-headed than you are 

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now, another Lucius Root Eastman will be at work in 
Amherst, winning honors and friends as of old. 

"Root" is a thoroughly loyal Amherst man, member 
of the Alumni Council, and a tremendously hard worker 
for '95. To him the Class owes much of its success in re- 
cent years, and much of its enthusiastic spirit. He is 
always ready to spend time or money for *95. His un- 
selfish work as President of the Class deserves the high- 
est praise and the warmest thanks. 



WARNER WARREN ELLIOTT, B.A.LL.B. 

ATA-^BK 
Lawyer, 
105 Holroyd Place, Woodbury, New Jersey. 

Warner was born in Rittman, Ohio, September 6, 1871, 
and prepared for college at Wooster University, Ohio, 
where he studied until 1893, when he entered Amherst. 

An excellent student, he was appointed as a com- 
mencement speaker at graduation. 

After he left Amherst he was Superintendent of 
Schools in Seville, Ohio, for two years. From 1897 to 
1899 he studied law in Western Reserve Law School, and 
has been practicing law since his graduation in 1900. 

He was, for a time. Manager of the Penn Mutual Life 
Insurance Co., Akron, Ohio. 

At present he is Resident Attorney for the New York 
Ship Building Corporation, Camden, New Jersey. 

Elliott had the honor, while still in college, of being 
one of the married members of the Class, for on October 
23, 1893, he married Hannah E. Selby of Cleveland, 
Ohio. They have one child, Margaret L., 1909. 

Elliott is a member of the Rotary Club and of the 
Country Club of Woodbury, New Jersey. 



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AMHERST '95 

WILLIAM McKIBBEN EWART, 

XO 
Merchant. 
Ewart & Co., 921 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

Ewart remained with the Class only part of the first 
term, so that he became acquainted with comparatively 
few of his Classmates. 

He was born June 1, 1873, in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- 
vania, where he prepared for college at the Central High 
School. 

After he left Amherst he entered immediately into 
work with his father's firm in Pittsburgh, importing 
and jobbing grocers. 

Ewart writes, "I hope the reunion will be very suc- 
cessful." 



In Memoriam 

GEORGE STEVENS FAIRBANKS, B.A.-M.A. 

Everyone in the class remembers Fairbanks and his 
ready smile. 

**George" was born August 2, 1873, in Ayer, Massa- 
chusetts. He prepared for college in the Amherst High 
School. 

In Amherst he gained a place on the Hyde Fifteen. 

Immediately after leaving College he became a teach- 
er, first as Principal of the High School at Naugatuck, 
Connecticut. He was then Assistant in the Boys' High 
School in Brooklyn for two years. He became Head of 
the English Department of the Columbia Grammar 
School, New York City, where he served for two years. 
Finally he returned to teach in his native town of Ayer. 

In 1898 Amherst gave him the degree of M. A. 

Shortly before his death he entered into business in 
Philadelphia. 

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August 31, 1898, he married Dorothy Schaffer of 
Naugatuck, Connecticut. He left one daughter. 



GEORGE WALTER FISKE, B.A.-M.A.-B.D.PH.D. 

<[)A0-OBK 
Educator, 
278 West College Street, Oberlin, Ohio. 

The distinguished gentleman with the alphabet after 
his name was a great man even in college, for he was 
no less than Vice President of '95 in Freshman year. 

Then he was Treasurer of the Alumnus Missionary 
Committee, President of The Student Board, Treasurer 
of the Y. M. C. A., and winner of the ''Bib. Lit." prize. 

He was born June 3, 1872, in Holliston, Massachu- 
setts. He prepared for college in Holliston High School, 
and was always a "live wire." 

After three years in Hartford Theological School he 
held pastorates in South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, 
and Auburn, Maine, preaching in New England nine 
years. Then, in 1907, he became Professor of Religious 
Education and Practical Theology at the Oberlin Gradu- 
ate School of Theology. Since 1908 he has been Junior 
Dean of the Graduate School of Theology. 

Fiske is a member of the American Sociological So- 
ciety, of the Social Service Committee of the Federal 
Council of Churches of Christ in America, of the Rural 
Committee of the International Sunday School Associa- 
tion, and of the Religious Educational Society. 

Fiske is the author of an extraordinarily good book, 
*^Boy Life and Self Government'' and of another good 
book, *'The Challenge of the Country," and he is Con- 
tributing Editor to the Pilgrim Press. 

Early training on The Amherst Student was so ef- 
fective that during the last ten years Fiske has pub- 
lished an average of 150,000 words a year. 

"Georgie" is a well known lecturer and gives at least 

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SAXE HENRY HANFORD 




SHERMAN WILLARD HAVEN 

GEORGE HAVEN 
EDWARD HAVEN 



AMHERST '95 

125 lectures and addresses every year. In his work as 
lecturer he has traveled throughout the United States, 
and he has also visited ten European Countries. 

He has made a special study of Religious Education 
and Sociology. Two of his books, "Finding the Com- 
rade God," and ''The Challenge of the Country'* were 
used in large editions overseas by the Y. M. C. A. and 
the Khaki University. 

Fiske is a member of the Oberlin Faculty Club, the 
Oberlin Auto Club, The Religious Education Society, and 
other organizations, and he is a Mason. 

August 1, 1898, he married Alice M. Stewart of Hop- 
kinton, Massachusetts. He has one child, Margaret, 
1912. 

Now say, did it pay to win the "Bib. Lit" Prize? 

That "Georgie" is as full of "pep" as ever, is shown 
by his words, "I have had wonderfully good health, and 
have been able to do a lot of night work, studying and 
writing, in addition to my college work, which in itself 
has been a constant delight." 



HOWARD DEAN FRENCH, B.A.-B.D. 

AAO 
Minister, 
1715 Westmoreland Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. 

"Pol," who says his favorite college sport was "fuss- 
ing," was born July 15, 1872 in Chicago. He prepared 
for college at the Hyde Park High School. 

In Amherst his tuneful voice rose so sweetly in the 
Glee Club for three years that they made him Leader in 
Senior year. For three years as member of the College 
Choir, he did his best to awaken the religious instincts 
of the Class. He was Director of the College Co-opera- 
tive Association, and member of The Olio Board. 

Immediately after leaving Amherst, he entered the 
Chicago University Divinity School, where he studied 

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for two years. In 1898 he was graduated from the Yale 
Divinity School. He then entered upon active work as 
a Congregational Minister, first at Lake Forest, Illinois, 
and then at Wyoming, Illinois. He is now Pastor of the 
Church of the Messiah, Los Angeles, California. 

October 3, 1901, he married Helen G. Cornell of Chi- 
cago, a graduate of Smith. He has two children, Paul, 
1904, and Elizabeth, 1911. 

"Pol" and "Mike" Kelly get together by the sad sea 
waves of the Pacific about once a year. "Pol" writes, "It 
will be a grievous disappointment to me not to get back, 
for I have been anticipating, ever since the 20th, — 
which I am still living over. The trip will mean a lot 
of money, which I might be able to raise by stealing or 
borrowing (and the cause might justify either), but the 
time is not so simply managed." He adds modestly, "I 
have no picture later than twenty years ago, but I shall 
try to get one as soon as I can for you. I am fat and 
bald, but handsome as ever." 



In Memoriam 

LOUIS HENRY GOODRICH 

Ben 

Husky and strong, it seemed as though Goodrich 
would live to a good old age. Friendly, genial and popu- 
lar, he left behind him memories of happy companion- 
ship. 

He was born February 19, 1871, in East Hardwick, 
Vermont. He prepared for college at St. Johnsbury 
Academy, Vermont. 

After seven terms in Amherst he passed away in East 
Hardwick, Vermont, January 29, 1894, a victim of ty- 
phoid fever. His death saddened the entire class. The 
memory of his happy personality is still with us. 



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THOMAS FRANCIS HENNESSY 




ARTHUR FISKE HOWARD 



AMHERST '95 

FRED J. GRAY, B.A., 

Lawyer, 

Ogdensburg, New York. 

In college Gray was one of the steady and reliable 
members of the Class, always quiet and friendly. 

"Senator" was born September 13, 1863, in Lisbon, 
New York. He prepared for college in the school at Og- 
densburg, New York, his present home. 

His steady qualities and sound judgment gave him 
the appointment of College Senator, a great honor twen- 
ty-five years ago. 

Gray showed good spirit by taking part in Senior 
Dramatics. 

After leaving Amherst he studied law, and has fol- 
lowed that profession. He was for a time United States 
Commissioner, and Member of the Assembly of the 
State of New York from 1906 to 1912. 

He is a member of the Ogdensburg Club. 



TRACY BEADLE GRISWOLD, B.A. 

Minister, 

1622 Sixty-ninth Street, Brooklyn, New York. 



"Gris" is one of the Class who has the honor of hav- 
ing a son in Amherst at the present time, — Clayton 
Griswold, born 1901, now Amherst *23. Another son, 
Courtland, born 1905, will very probably attend Am- 
herst. Good for Griswold! 

"Gris" was born in Southport, New York, June 6, 
1869, and prepared for college at Elmira Free Academy. 

After he left Amherst he studied for three years in 
Auburn Theological Seminary, and was ordained June 
3, 1898. 

His first pastorate was the Westminster Presbyterian 

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Church, Auburn, New York. Since then he has held pas- 
torates in Albany, Oregon, and in Brooklyn, New York. 

August 30, 1899, he married Mary Currier of Elmira, 
New York. 

He has traveled throughout the United States. 



SAXE HENRY HANFORD, B.A. 

WY 
Advertising Agent, 
Ironde quoit, Rochester, New York. 



"Bungler," he of the happy smile, arrived on this 
planet September 2, 1873, in Rochester, New York. He 
prepared for college in the Rochester Free Academy. 
After a year at the University of Rochester, he entered 
Amherst in Sophomore year. There he became Assist- 
ant Manager, and Manager, of the Athletic Team, and 
a member of the Hyde Fifteen. 

If you will watch his actions next June, you will see 
him creep forth like Captain Kidd of old, to a mysterious 
marked spot on the Northampton Road. There, three 
paces north, two paces south, and in a direct line across 
the three great pine trees, lies buried a mysterious se- 
cret, a secret buried over twenty-five years ago! But re- 
member, this is a secret! "There are thirty-nine men on 
the dead man's chest," but the treasure shall yet be his, 
though a quarter of a century has passed. Keep your 
€ye on Saxe every moonlight night this June! 

After "Bungler" left Amherst, he was a newspaper 
reporter for three years at Rochester, New York, then 
for two years a fruit farmer at HoUey, New York, then 
once again a newspaper reporter. In 1902 he entered 
the Advertising Department of the Eastman Kodak Co., 
with which he remained until 1906, when he became 
an Advertising Agent. He is now Treasurer of the firm 
of Lyddon & Hanford, Rochester and New York. 

Hanford has traveled in the Nussissagua region of 
Northern Canada and in Cuba. 

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In 1918 and 1919, we are proud to say, he carried on 
helpful war work in France, one of several of '95 to for- 
get age and go with the boys to the defense of Democ- 
racy, a noble service. During the war, while he was in 
this country, he was Director of Publicity for the sale 
of Liberty Bonds in the Rochester District. 

Some time ago a trolley car tackled him unexpected- 
ly, and broke three of his ribs, and a wrist, but the 
trolley car was ruined. Don't "get gay" with Saxe, if 
you value your health. 

November 22, 1898, he married Grace G. Gordon of 
Rochester, New York. His first child, Emily Gordon, 1900, 
died in 1910. Robert Saxe, 1906, Henry Samuel, 1912, 
and Alan Guam, 1917, are all heading towards Amherst, 
where we shall be glad to visit them some time in the 
future, and rejoice that the Hanford breed is still on 
the old stamping ground, preparing to master the prob- 
lems of the future. 



ERNEST WEAVER HARDY, B.A. 

Ben 

Lawyer, 

1110 Wilcox Bnilding, Portland, Oregon. 

One of the most cheerful, fun-loving and pleasure- 
giving men who ever came to Amherst! Bom under 
the shadow of Smith College in Northampton, Massa- 
chusetts, February 16, 1875, "Fat" found himself, after 
preparation for college at the Northampton High School, 
unable to enter Smith, and therefore turned to Amherst. 

As an orator he shone in the Kellogg Fifteen and the 
Hyde Fifteen, and as Class Toastmaster. As a much per- 
turbed patient at the dentist's, in Senior dramatics, he 
set the Class into roars of what Homer called "Asbestos 
Laughter." 

When he left Alma Mater he studied law in North- 
ampton, and was admitted to the bar (the dry kind) in 
June, 1897. 

On the card that "Chipmunk" returned, he says that 
on April 25, 1895, he married Marion Louise Sparks of 

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New Haven, Connecticut. Unless Ernest got his dates 
twisted on the card, he had the honor of being one of the 
few married men who graduated with the class. Cer- 
tainly he was never more cheerful than in 1895 when 
he spent much of his time "roasting" "F. H. L.," the 
writer of this sketch, in the columns of the Northamp- 
ton Press. 

In Northampton he became a member of the law firm 
of Erwin & Hardy, and Chairman of the Republican 
City Committee. In 1900 he reported, "I expect to stay 
in Northampton until such time as an enraged populace 
m-ay emphatically demand my removal." His present ad- 
dress is in Portland, Oregon, about as far as he can get 
from said populace. 

Hardy is still "alive and solvent," which, he says, "Is 
probably an accident and certainly an adventure." He 
is still a lawyer, practising with great vigor and doing 
great work, as he says, "For the benefit of the land- 
lord and the Law Book publishers." 

Hardy reports that he has traveled "mostly in circles, 
one leg being longer than the other, the result of being 
constantly pulled." He is a lawyer and a good one. 



SHERMAN WILLARD HAVEN, B.A.-M.A.-B.D. 

AAO 
Minister, 
Waterville, New York. 

Sherman Haven, or "General," one of the rosy-cheeked 
boys of twenty-five years ago, was born October 13, 
1873, in Sangerfield, New York. He prepared for col- 
lege at the Waterville Union Academy. 

In Amherst he was an excellent student, winning the 
Sawyer prize and the Latin prize. He was also a mem- 
ber of the Board of Editors of The Student. He served 
also as Secretary of the Alumnus Missionary Associa- 
tion. He was a Commencement Speaker. 

Haven went from Amherst to the Auburn Theological 
Seminary, where he served, by special request of the Fac- 
ulty, as Tutor in Psychology and Ethics. He was one 

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GEORGE TUDOR JONES 




CARLETON AUGUSTINE KELLEY 
MRS. CARLETON A. KELLEY 

KATHLEEN AND PATRICIA 



AMHERST '95 

of the first editors of The Auburn Seminary Review. He 
was graduated in 1898. In June, 1906, he won the de- 
gree of M. A. from Amherst. For three years he at- 
tended courses in New York University, specializing in 
graduate work in Hebrew, History and English. 

His first pastorate was the Congregational Church at 
Wellsville, New York. From 1902 to 1911 he was Pastor 
at Patchogue, New York. Since 1913 he has been Pastor 
of the First Presbyterian Church at Waterville, New 
York. 

In addition to his work as Pastor, he has taken great 
interest in the activities of his home town of Sangerfield, 
where he has been Justice of the Peace and Supervisor. 
He has also been Chairman of the Oneida County Board 
of Supervisors, President of the Oneida County Y. M. C. 
A., and Moderator of the Utica Presbytery. He gives 
part of his time to farming, and dips into politics for 
recreation. 

He is a member of the Pickwick Club of Waterville, 
and the Utica Republican Club. 

During the war he was a member of Field Artillery, 
C. O. T. S., and of the Waterville Home Defense. He 
also gave public aid to the "War Chest." He has trav- 
eled throughout the United States both for health and 
pleasure. 

He has given many public addresses. 

August 24, 1898, he married Edna Costa of Auburn, 
New York. He has four children, Edward, 1900, Frances, 
1903, George, 1907, and Helen, 1913. 



THOMAS FRANCIS HENNESSY, B.S. 

Manager of a Printing and Bookbinding Plant, 
703 Thirty-fifth Street, Norfolk, Virginia. 

"Tom," member of the great and only Freshman Base- 
ball Team of *95, was born December 9, 1869, in Milford, 
Massachusetts. He prepared for college at the David 
Prouty High School in Spencer, Massachusetts. 

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When he left Amherst after graduation, he became 
District Manager of the King Richardson Publishing 
Co., of Springfield, Massachusetts, a position that he 
held until 1907, when he became salesman, first, for P. F. 
Collier & Son, New York, and then for the printing and 
bookbinding manufactory of W. T. Barron & Co., Nor- 
folk, Virginia, for which he is now Manager. 

Hennessy has traveled throughout the eastern part 
of the United States. 

During the War he served in Red Cross work, and as 
a member of the Norfolk, Virginia, Home Guard. 

June 15, 1899, he married Charlotte L. Rockwood of 
Augusta, Maine. He has one child, Dorothy Louise, 1901. 

"Tom" is the same good-hearted fellow, and sends his 
regards to all. 



ARTHUR FISKE HOWARD, B.S.-S.-B. 

XO-OBK 
Insurance, 
71 Kilby Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 

"Dick" is now Special Agent for the Granite State 
Fire Insurance Co., of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 

He has been Assistant Superintendent of the Ports- 
mouth Electric Railroad, Assistant Chief Electrician of 
the B. & M. Railroad, and Inspector for the Granite State 
Fire Insurance Co. 

Howard has been a member of the City Council of 
Portsmouth, Police Commissioner of Portsmouth, and 
he is a Member of the New Hampshire State Legisla- 
ture, 1919-1920. 

"Dick" was born June 9, 1873, in Portsmouth, New 
Hampshire, where he prepared for college. 

In Amherst he was noted for his faithfulness on the 
tennis field, and his regularity in attendance at Smith. 

After leaving Amherst he studied three years in the 

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MARK REES KIMBALL 




NELSON KINGSLAND 



AMHERST '95 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was Rodman 
for the B. & M. Railroad in 1898-99, and then entered 
into the various work that has been named above. 

December 21, 1899, he married Anne Fletcher of 
Northampton, Massachusetts. 

"Dick" has attended nearly every reunion. 



THORNTON JENKINS, B.A.-M.A. 
AY 

Educator, 

14 GeUineau Street, Maiden, Massachusetts. 

Thornton Jenkins was born in West Barnstable, Mas- 
sachusetts, June 4, 1873. He prepared for college with 
John H. Manning at Groton. 

The Class lost a good member when Jenkins left Am- 
herst in Junior year in order to enter Harvard, — from 
which he gained the degree of B, A. in 1896, and M. A. in 
1897. 

In 1898 he taught Latin in Cosmopolitan University at 
Irvington, New York. After two years at the Cascadilla 
School, Ithaca, New York, and one year in the Passaic, 
New Jersey, High School, he went to the Maiden, Mas^ 
sachusetts, High School in 1892, and is now Head Mas- 
ter of that institution. 

Jenkins prepared the revision of Collar and Daniels' 
First Latin Book. 

On June 26, 1901, he married Kate Pingo Chase of 
Hyannis, Massachusetts. He has three children, Wil- 
liam, 1902, Josephine, 1904, and Peter, 1908. 

Jenkins says, "The longer I live, the more glad I am 
that it was my lot to spend two years in Amherst. When- 
ever I think of college life, my thought goes back through 
the Harvard days to the days of real living as a college 
man in old Amherst." 

And the best of it is, the boys of the Class remember 
Jenkins just as pleasantly as he remembers Amherst. 

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GEORGE TUDOR JONES, B.A.-B.D. 

Minister, 
Ellsworth, Maine. 



"Georgie" Jones, who had the largest moustache of 
any member of the Class, was born (without the mous- 
tache) at Macomb, Illinois, January 22, 1871. 

He fitted for college at Wellesley, Massachusetts (not 
at the girls* college, you know, but at the High School), 
and also in the Syracuse, New York, High School. 

In college he always had a ready smile for everyone, 
and the years have made him more cordial and affable 
than ever. 

In his Senior year he dropped out of Amherst, but re- 
turned later and graduated with the class of '96, believ- 
ing that a sure way to see Sabrina. Up to the present 
year he was one of the few members of the Class who, at 
the mention of Sabrina, could howl, hiss, and sing the 
hymn in her honor, all in one breath. 

"Georgie'' studied in the Chicago Theological Sem- 
inary, 1897-1898, and in the Yale Divinity School, 1898- 
1900 (where he gained the degree of B. D.), and in 
Moody's Bible Institute in the summer of 1900. 

He was ordained December 19, 1900, and became Pas- 
tor of the Congregational Church at Tomahawk, Wis- 
<;onsin, in 1901. While in Tomahawk, he was President 
of the Wisconsin North Eastern Christian Endeavor. 

In 1906 he was Chaplain of Straight University, New 
Orleans, Louisiana. 

For some years he preached lustily in Warwick, Mas- 
sachusetts, following in the footsteps of his father, who 
was also a minister. This spring he moved to Ellsworth, 
Maine. 

At last account "Georgie" was a bachelor, so if you 
know any eligible young ladies bring them up to Am- 
herst in June and introduce them to this good-natured 
minister. 



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CARLETON AUGUSTINE KELLEY, B.A..LL.B. 

0AX 
Purchasing Agent, 
907 West Second Street, Riverside, California. 

''Mike/' the redoubtable *'Mike," who comes all the 
way from the wild and woolly west, regardless of ef- 
fort, to attend Class reunions, was always a "snappy" 
"live wire." "Mike" has done a variety of things worthy 
of fame. 

Up to 1907 he was the youngest man on record ap- 
pointed Adjutant General of the State of Colorado. 

When strikes arose in 1903 and 1904, there was 
"Mike," with his men, putting down the riots, and teach- 
ing law and order, and Amherst obedience to authority. 

From 1905 to 1912, he was head of the State Military 
Force of Colorado, a force in which he served first as 
Private in the Denver City Troop, then as Lieutenant, 
Assistant Adjutant General, and Adjutant and Disburs- 
ing Officer. 

Kelley was for six years a member of the National 
Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, and member of 
the Board of Directors for the National Rifle Associa- 
tion. Don't reach for your gun when "Mike" is around. 
He comes from the West. 

Since 1913 he has been head of the Supply and Pur- 
chasing Department of the Southern Sierras Power Co., 
Riverside, California. 

"Mike" was bom June 29, 1873, in Burlington, Iowa. 
He prepared for college in the Burlington High School. 

Immediately after leaving Amherst, he studied in 
the Kent College of Law, Chicago, from which he was 
graduated in 1897. He practiced law from 1898 until 
1902, when he became connected with the State Militia. 

October 22, 1910, he married Ina Young, of Trinidad, 
Colorado. He has two children, Kathleen, 1915, and Pa- 
tricia, 1919. 

Kelley is a member of the University Club of Denver, 
the Denver Athletic Club, the Mile High Club of Den- 
ver, and the Present Day Club of Riverside, California. 

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Although *'Mike" has gone off to the Pacific Coast, he 
is only fifty-six miles away from Howard French. Andy 
and "Georgie" Olds visited him at Riverside, and his 
good spirit always takes him back to Amherst reunions, 
so he really isn't far away at all. 



MARK REES KIMBALL, B.A. 

XW 
Real Estate, 
39 South La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois. 

"Kimmie," who once upon a time was Manager of the 
Musical Association of Amherst College, and what is 
more. Chairman of the Class Finance Committee, was 
born July 15, 1873, in Chicago. He prepared for college 
at the Hyde Park High School. 

Immediately after leaving Amherst he entered the 
Harvard Law School, where he remained for one year, 
then taking up the tanning business at Waynesville, 
North Carolina, with the Junaluska Leather Co. 

Since 1899 he has been engaged in real estate work in 
Chicago. 

"Kimmie" has traveled throughout the United States. 

His work as Chairman of the Class Finance Commit- 
tee having taught him caution, he endeavored to cross a 
street behind sl trolley car instead of ahead of it. As a 
result, the trolley pole fell off and all but killed *'Kimmie." 

Kimball served in Y. M. C. A. work in this country 
during the war, and made various addresses to newly 
drafted men, doing good and patriotic service. 

In addition to that, he has been Treasurer of a Church 
for thirteen years, which is more than any other mem- 
ber of the Class has reported. 

December 31, 1896, he married Jessie Bingham of 
Chicago. He has three children, Jean, 1898, Marion, 
1901, and Dorothy, 1905. 

"Kimmie" says, "My most interesting college scrape 

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was when I managed to scrape through and get a sheep- 
skin. I do not seem to understand where I got all the 
time I did for playing tennis and scrub baseball and 
football on the lawn, and billiards at "Charlie" Perley's, 
and driving about the country, and for helping to initiate 
some of the '96 Freshmen into The Great and Only and 
Highly Respectable Society of Annie Rooney. The recol- 
lections of care-free years seem to impress me more and 
more with the fact that they ivere care-free." He adds, 
"It is about all a fellow can do nowadays to pay atten- 
tion to the present and keep one eye cocked at the corner 
ahead to avoid colliding head-on with eternity, a trial 
sentence or financial ruin. In the last analysis, the 
things that now appeal to us most are the friendships 
and associations we made in those days of our life to- 
gether, in which each of us had the same joys and the 
same sorrows, an experience that bound us together in 
a common fellowship." 



NELSON KINGSLAND, B.S. 

Ben 

Editor, 

4306 Prytania Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

"Kingie" who, according to the '95 Olio, was "The hu- 
man billiard ball," is still wielder of the pen, just as he 
was in college. You may remember that he was on the 
''Lit." Board and that he was one of the Kellogg Five, 
and the Hyde Fifteen, that he won a Lester Prize, and 
that he took a conspicuous part in Senior dramatics. 

Kingsland was born September 3, 1874, in Keeseville, 
New York. He prepared for college in the Maywood, 
Illinois, public schools, and the Morgan Park Academy, 
Illinois. 

While he says his favorite college sport was "making 
up cuts," his ambition was to be a journalist. In spite 
of the fact that he says he has "found that there is no 
such animal — extinct now," he has served with many 
papers: first with The New York Tribune, 1895-1896, 
and then with The New York Evening Journal, 1896- 
1897; The New York Times, 1897-1898; The Denver Re- 

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publican, 1898-1899, and The Los Angeles Record, 1899- 
1900. He was Night Editor of The Pittsburgh Gazette, 
1900-1902; Night Editor of The Pittsburgh Dispatch, 
1902-1904; Night Editor of The Los Angeles Herald, 
1907, and City Editor of The Los Angeles Record, 1908. 
In addition to his newspaper work, he was Manager of 
the Advertising Department of the Pressed Steel Car 
Co., of Pittsburgh. He has also served with The Illus- 
trated News and The New York Herald, and is now 
Telegraph Editor of The New Orleans Times-Picayune. 

"Kingie" had remarkable experience in the United 
States Army, serving in the Twenty-second Regular New 
York Volunteer Infantry from May to November, 1898, 
and in the Eighteenth Pa. Infantry, 1916, and at Camp 
Taylor, Kentucky, 1918. 

He has traveled in Western Europe and throughout 
the United States, "with a look at nearly all the way sta- 
tions." 

With old-time philosophy, Kingsland says he has made 
a special study of "The World." 

He is a member of The American Legion and the New 
Orleans Press Club. 

June 11, 1896, he married Jessie Kingman of South 
Deerfield, Massachusetts. He has two children, Kath- 
erine, 1900, and Edmond, 1902, deceased. 

Kingsland writes, "You fellows cannot know how much 
I would like to be with you during the happy days of 
commencement week. At any rate I will be with you in 
spirit. I still carry a little chunk of that '95 spirit 
around in my soul, and it's never done me any harm," 



In Memoriam 

HENRY WILDER LANE, B.A. 
0AX-OBK 

Just as this book went to press there came the sad 
news of the death of Henry Lane. 

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AMHERST '95 

He died on Monday, May 10, 1920, at his home in 
Keene, New Hampshire. For some time his health had 
not been of the best. Recently his condition became 
alarming, and at last, beyond hope. He died of anemia. 

What his death means to the Class cannot be told. 
Henry went to Amherst for every reunion of the Class. 
He was deeply and seriously interested in '95. As Class 
Treasurer he aided in making arrangements for re- 
unions, and over a year ago was active in planning the 
present reunion. In order to do his best for '95 he 
made special trips to Amherst, and carried on consider- 
able correspondence. He had charge of the Class funds 
and the payment of Class bills. He was a loyal, active, 
high-spirited member of the Class. 

Last summer "Freddie" Law dropped in on Lane in 
his home at Keene. He found him the same good fellow 
that he was in college — scarcely changed at all, in fact, 
from the college days. He looked no older, acted no 
older, was as hearty and as boyish, and as full of spirit 
as ever. He had been at work on the wide lawn in front 
of his house, a pleasant, home-like place on a beautifully 
shaded street in Keene, — a street not unlike the streets 
of Amherst. His children were playing about with 
other children, and the air was vibrant with life. There 
was no sign of sickness or of trouble. 

Dunbar writes: "Henry was very poorly a year ago 
when I stayed at his home over night. He went to 
Lowell, I think, for an operation but fainted, so they 
could not undertake it. Later he went to Boston, I un- 
derstand, and had a transfusion of blood. As a result 
he gained a great deal, but did not hold it. For the past 
month he has been unconscious. He had an interesting 
family and a pleasant home. He was one of the leading 
men of Keene." 

Lane lived a fine, simple and beautiful life, always 
keeping the old ideals, always living the life of the spirit, 
just as he did in Amherst years and years ago. 

We shall miss his strong hand, his hearty voice, his 
brotherly greeting. There is not a member of the Class 
but feels the richer because he knew Lane, and the poor- 
er because he has gone. Our ranks may close, but the 
circle of love remains eternally the same. 

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Lane was born April 2, 1871, in Keene, New Hamp- 
shire. He prepared for college in the Keene High 
School. 

When he was in college he made an astonishing record 
for physical strength. He lifted, with his legs, 620 kilo- 
grams; and with his back, 326 kilograms; he dipped 
forty-five times, and pulled up forty-eight times; his to- 
tal strength was recorded as 1,650.45 kilograms! 

In recent years Lane was Treasurer and Manager of 
the Monadnock Shoe Co., of Keene, New Hampshire. 

He was Member and Chairman of the State Y. 
M. C. A. Committee for New Hampshire, President and 
Director of the Keene Y. M. C. A., Trustee of the First 
Congregational Church of Keene, Councilman, Alder- 
man, Member of the Board of Education, and Trustee of 
the Keene Academy. 

Henry traveled in the Eastern part of the United 
States and in Mexico. 

October 9, 1900, he married Bessie Howard of Fitch- 
burg, Massachusetts. He left four children, Howard, 
1904, Elisha, 1907, Helen, 1908, and Wilder, 1912. The 
three boys are all scheduled for Amherst, and, perhaps, 
following their father, will be Gymnasium Captains, 
Platoon Officers and Commencement Speakers. At any 
rate, we hope they will. 



CHARLES BLAKESLEE LAW, B.S. 

AY 

Lawyer, 

50 Hendrix Street, Brooklyn, New York. 

"C. B." was one of the first of the class to gain high 
office. He was a Member of Congress from 1905 to 1911, 
Sheriff of King's County, 1912-1914, and has been Jus- 
tice of the Municipal Court of the City of New York 
since 1916. 

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HENRY WILDER LANE 




CHARLES BLAKESLEE LAW 



AMHERST '95 

In the other years since he left Amherst he was a 
law student at Rome, New York, and a lawyer in Great- 
er New York. 

He has made a first class record, and Amherst is as 
proud of him as are his many constituents in Brooklyn. 

**C. B." was born in Hannibal, New York, on Febru- 
ary 5, 1872, and fitted for college at Colgate Academy. 

On November 20, 1901, he married lima Best of Jor- 
dan, New York. He has one child, Margaret Louise, 
1908. 

"C. B." is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a member of the 
Royal Arcanum, and a member of numerous social or- 
ganizations. He is also a member of the Chamber of 
Commerce. 

Like all politicians he can shake hands with a thousand 
people a day, call everyone by his first name, and ask in- 
timately about the children. 

His resemblance to F. H. Law was such that **01d 
Doc." could never tell the two apart. In later life 
people have called "F. H." "Congressman" and "C. B." 
"school teacher." 

In April, 1920, "C. B." was endorsed by the Brooklyn 
Republicans of the Twenty-second Assembly District for 
the position of Supreme Court Justice. The official reso- 
lutions said: "The Honorable Charles B. Law has proven 
his great value as a public servant by his distinguished 
service in Congress as a Representative from this Dis- 
trict, and later in the office of Sheriff of Kings County, 
in which he accomplished many important reforms which 
still endure, and has demonstrated in a marked degree 
his fitness for higher judicial responsibilities by the 
ability, fairness, and high regard for individual rights, 
with which, during the past five years, he had dis- 
charged the highly important duties of Justice of the 
Municipal Court of the City of New York." 



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FREDERICK HOUK LAW, A.B.-A.M.-PH.D. 

Educator, 

472 Argyle Road, Brooklyn, New York. 

"Houk," or "Freddie," attained one of his greatest lit- 
erary ambitions in compiling this volume, a work in 
which he plays the part of an inconspicuous Boswell to 
the famous giants of '95. The recorder of greatness was 
born September 7, 1871, in New York City. He prides 
himself, in fact, on being an original Manhattanite and 
a descendant of the early Dutch settlers. However, he 
fled early from New York, and prepared for college in 
Oxford Academy, Oxford, New York. 

In Amherst he was for three years Class Secretary. 
He was also a member of The Student Board, a member 
of The Olio Board, a bicycle rider of the famous Cider 
Team, member of the Hyde Fifteen, winner of an Arm- 
strong essay prize, a Hogan prize, and a Latin prize. 

After graduation "F. H." studied two years in Colum- 
bia University, specializing in Philology and English Lit- 
erature, and gaining the degree of M. A. in 1896. For 
a year he held the chair of English and French in Centre 
College, Kentucky. 

From 1898 until 1904 he was Head of the Department 
of English in the Pawtucket, Rhode Island, High School. 

Since 1904 Law has lived in New York City, where he 
is Head of the Department of English in the Stuyvesant 
High School, and Lecturer in English in New York Uni- 
versity, the university that conferred upon him the de- 
gree of Ph. D. for advanced work in English Literature. 

"Houk" has given extension courses for The Brooklyn 
Institute of Arts and Sciences, and for The College of 
the City of New York. He is also connected with The 
Independent, for which he prepares weekly lesson plans, 
that are used in schools throughout the United States 
and its possessions. He has lectured extensively in 
many cities, principally upon travel, — for "Houk" has 
been "somewhat of a tramp." 

He has traveled over a great part of the world, visit- 
ing nearly every State in the United States, many places 

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FREDERICK HOUK LAW 




JOHN THORP LAW 

CLASS BOY OF '95 



AMHERST '95 

in Alaska, Canada, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and 
Labrador, every country in Europe, throughout Russia, 
Finland and the Balkan Countries, and Asia Minor and 
northern Africa. He journeyed 1400 miles on the 
Yukon, has been within 700 miles of the North Pole, has 
visited the interior of Iceland, and has been with the 
Eskimos along the Labrador Coast. He has spent much 
time on horseback in the least visited parts of the far 
west, and has been with nearly every tribe of American 
Indians. He confesses to the fact that some western 
horses have "jarred" him considerably, and that som.e 
in Brooklyn have thrown him headlong. 

"F. H." has always been a diligent pusher of the pen. 
He is the author of the following works: 

"The Heart of Sindhra," *'Sister dementia" ''Esther 
the Queen," ''An Idyll of the King," "Ad Miriam" "The 
History of Old St. Paul's," "Mastery of Speech," "Eng- 
lish That Makes Money," and many magazine and news- 
paper articles, including magazine series such as : "Great 
Novels of Good Cheer," "Great American Short Stories," 
and "William Shakespeare" 

LaVs editions of the following texts are used in many 
schools : 

"Modern Short Stories," Century Co. ; "Selections from, 
American Poetry," Houghton, Mifflin; "Poe's Tales and 
Poems," C. E. Merrill Co.; "Southey's Life of Nelson," 
Macmillan; "Stevenson's Treasure Island," Appleton; 
"Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth," American Book Co., 
and "Van Dyke's Other Wise Man," Harper's. 

On June 30, 1896, he married Mary Thorp, Smith '95 
(died 1907), of Oxford, New York. 

On June 29, 1912, he married Carrie Shields of Wash- 
ington, New Jersey. "Y. H." has four children, the 
Class Boy of '95, John Thorp Law, Colgate '21, Mar- 
garet, 1913, Janet, 1915, and Frederick Houk, Jr., 1917. 

"Houk" is a Knight Templar, a Thirty-second Degree 
Mason, a member of the Mystic Shrine, a member of the 
Knickerbocker Field Club, The High School Teachers' 
Association, The Association of Teachers of English, 
and of other social organizations. 



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JAMES STEWART LAWSON, B.A.-LL.B. 

OA0 
Lawyer, 
7211 Shore Road, Brooklyn, New York. 

"Jimmy" was one of a stalwart band of '95 who made 
a fine endeavor to capture "Sabrina." During that 
anabasis ''Jimmy" plunged off a railroad train head first, 
and turned his face into pulp. That was before the 
days of Distinguished Service Medals. But History 
pauses here a moment and tenderly regards the sacri- 
fice. 

"Jimmy" likewise performed valorous deeds in the 
Kellogg Fifteen, in the Senior Dramatics, on the Tennis 
Court and at Mrs. Redding's boarding house. 

James was born January 21, 1875, in Brooklyn, New 
York, where he prepared for college in Polytechnic In- 
stitute. 

After leaving Amherst he studied law in New York 
Law School from 1895 to 1897, when he was admitted 
to the bar. Since then he has been practising law in New 
York City. 

June 25, 1902, he married Blanche Suits of Brooklyn, 
New York, now deceased. February 12, 1907, he mar- 
ried Edna Cram of Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada. He 
has five children, Donald, 1903, Norman, 1905, Ralph, 
1909, Helen, 1910, and Dorothy, 1913. 

"Jimmy" is a good "joiner" for he is a member of the 
Masons, the Elks, the Royal Arcanum, the City Club, 
the Crescent Club, the Merchants' Association and the 
Chamber of Commerce. 

He has traveled throughout the United States and 
Canada, to the Azores, and along the Mediterranean, as 
well as in Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, 
Belgium, England, and Scotland. 

That "Jimmy" is the same good fellow he was at col- 
lege is shown by his words, "I am thoroughly American. 
I merely endeavor to do my bit as the opportunity 
arises." And that is the best anyone can do. And "Jimmy" 
always did it, even if it called for the sacrifice of his 
cherubic countenance. Long may he live! 

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AMHERST '95 

CHARLES GEORGE LITTLE, B.S.-LL.B. 

AKE 
Lawyer, 
Evanston, Illinois. 

"Charlie" Little was born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 
vania, October 17, 1874. He prepared for college in the 
Syracuse, New York, High School, enjoyed a year at 
Syracuse University, entered Amherst with *95, gradu- 
ated, and then went west to become famous. 

In college he was a member of The Olio Board, and 
Chairman of the Committee for the Senior Class Supper. 

From 1895 until 1897 he was a student in Northwest- 
ern University Law School. 

Since 1897 he has been a practising lawyer in Chi- 
cago, and a Professor of Law in Northwestern Univer- 
sity. He is a member of the firm of Nelson, Little, Gor- 
don & Mix. For a time he was Examiner of Titles for 
Cook County. 

He has traveled in Europe and throughout the United 
States. 

Little is a member of the University Club, the Union 
League Club and other clubs, and he has performed vari- 
ous services for the public benefit. 

October 2, 1900, he married Myra Nelson of Evans- 
ton, Illinois. He has four children, Alice, 1901, Charles, 
1903, Myra, 1912, and Edith, 1919. 



In Memoriam 

AMASA JAMES LYALL, Bj^. 

xo 



Amasa Lyall was a young man of gentle, retiring na- 
ture, caring for beauty of color and symmetry of form. 

He was born in New York, August 20, 1873. He pre- 
pared for college at the Dwight School, New York City. 

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In Amherst he led a blameless life, and endeared him- 
self to all with whom he came in contact. 

After graduation he studied architecture at the Mas- 
sachusetts Institute of Technology and with an archi- 
tect in New York City, hoping to carry into reality some 
of his ideals of beauty. 

In 1897 ill health obliged him to give up work. He 
sought rest at Twilight Park in the Catskills, and at 
Phoenix, Arizona. 

October 3, 1898, he died of intestinal tuberculosis at 
Twilight Park, New York, leaving behind him the mem- 
ory of a beautiful nature. A beautiful country home that 
he designed remains a witness to his dreams. 



ROBERT MAINZER, BA. 

Banker, 

378 West End Avenue, New York City. 

"The Mainz" has set a remarkable example for his 
classmates, for he has attended every reunion of the 
Class since graduation. 

He has also set a distinguished example of public 
service by eighteen years of helpful, self-sacrificing 
and thoroughly sympathetic work for the New York 
Fire Department. A fire department gong summons 
him at any hour to every important fire that oc- 
curs in New York City. When the firemen are freez- 
ing with cold, or exhausted by their dangerous work, 
you will see "The Mainz" supervising the free distribu- 
tion of coffee, and the giving of other service, for the fire- 
men. 

As the result of such labors, he has been made an honor- 
ary Deputy Chief of the New York City Fire Department. 

Once he made a special trip to Europe to study the rela- 
tion of insurance to arson and incendiarism in European 
countries. 

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ROBERT MAINZER 




DWIGHT WHITNEY MORROW 



AMHERST '95 

Governor Sulzer of New York, in a message to the New 
York Legislature, included high commendation of Main- 
zer's report of the results of his investigation of the 
means of fire protection. 

For helpful service to the Police Department, he was 
made Honorary Member of Traffic Squad B. A., and 
Honorary Member of the Mounted Police B. A. He gave 
other public service by speaking at the sub-treasury and 
the Public Library in the interests of the Liberty Loan. 

Robert has accomplished all this in spite of the fact 
that he took first Sophomore Latin prize and two Italian 
prizes in Amherst. 

"Bob" was born in New York City, July 2, 1875, and 
prepared for college at Dr. Sach's school. New York City. 

Mainzer has been engaged in banking, since gradua- 
tion, in the firm of Hallgarten & Co., 5 Nassau Street, 
New York City. 

July 28, 1905, he married lola Powe^ of Peoria Il- 
linois. 

He is a member of the Century Country Club, the 
Bankers' Club, the Creve Coeur Club of Peoria, the Bo- 
hemians and the Fire Department Cycle Club. 

He holds the class record for crossing the Atlantic 
Ocean, for he has made eighteen round trips to Europe. 
In addition to this he has made five trips to the Canadian 

Rockies. 



WILLIAM JOHN McARTHUR, B.A.-LL.B. 

AKE 
Lawyer, 
Woodmere, New York. 



"Mac's" college training with "Nungie," Frink, and 
"Poco" was made evident when he wrote, "I was shocked 
at the lack of chastity in the English used by you in 
your circular letter." 

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"Mac" was born August 30, 1872, in Ogdensburg, 
New York, and prepared for college in Ogdensburg Free 
Academy. 

He writes that he considers his college career was 
marred because he '*Did not rise even to the dignity of 
a platoon officer." Just the same he was a ''bully good 
fellow," and always had a smile and a friendly word for 
everyone, — and does yet. 

From 1895 to 1897 he studied law in the New York 
Law School. Since 1897 he has been practising lav/ in 
New York City, recording that from 1905 to 1909 he 
was "still going," from 1910 to 1914, "doing a little 
better, thank you," and from 1915 to 1919 "not yet dis- 
barred." 

He was for some time Counsel for the Nassau Electric 
R. R. Co., of Brooklyn, New York. 

He says he once traveled "all the way to Cleveland, 
Ohio, and once went to Boston." 

Some years ago he had a desperate adventure in a ter- 
rific storm on the St. Lawrence River, but, like Christo- 
pher Columbus, he got across all right, thank Heaven ! 

The chief private position that he has held is "that of 
husband and father," for on November 6, 1902, he mar- 
ried Maude McNeill of Brooklyn, New York. He is the 
proud father of Robert, 1903, and Jean, 1905. Robert is 
hopefully looking towards Amherst. 

"Mac" is a member of the University Club of Brook- 
lyn. 

He is one of the few medal sinners of the class, [That 
is what our stenographer wrote, but we dictated: 
"MEDAL WINNERS"], for he has attended all the class re- 
unions. We are proud of such good spirit. It makes a 
better world. 



I 



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ELMER SLAYTON NEWTON 




RANSOM PROCTOR NICHOLS 



AMHERST '95 

GUIDO CONTI SLEEPER METCALF, B.A. 

AY 
Credit Manager, 
6956 Wallace Street, Englewood, Illinois. 

Do you remember the famous Freshman Class meet- 
ing at which the matter of Class economy was being 
seriously discussed? Do you remember how Guido solved 
the difficulty by jumping on the table, waving his arms 
and yelling, "To H with poverty! D the ex- 
pense ! !" It carried the day — a famous piece of elo- 
quence, instantaneous in its effectiveness. 

Guido had remarkable literary ability, and wrote 
reams of poetry, including the "Fer de Lance" poem in 
The Olio, for Guido was one of The Olio editors in 
Junior year. 

However, this brilliant, versatile and ingenious youth 
left Amherst in 1893, after only six terms with the Class. 

Guido was born January 23, 1873, in Peabody, Illinois. 

He prepared for college in the Englewood High School. 

After he left Amherst he entered the University of 
Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1898 with the 
degree of B. A. 

Guido taught school during 1899, but soon found that 
the financial path of the pedagogue is not paved with 
gold, and became an Accountant, serving as such from 
1900 to 1905, when he became an Office Manager. From 
1910 to 1913 he was Chief Clerk and then for three 
years Auditor. Since 1916 he has been Credit Manager, 
— and will arrange to trust you for a million any time 
you wish. He is with the Stewart-Warner Speedometer 
Corporation. 

Guido is still unmarried, living, as Shakespeare says, 
"In maiden meditation, fancy free." 

His hobbies are chemistry and photography. 

We are glad to say that G. C. S. M. is planning to come 
to the Reunion. We shall all be glad to see him, and listen 
once again, spellbound, to his dithyrambic sallies. 

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He writes: "The last year or two in business has 
been such a drive that after I have done what I have to 
do, I feel an unconquerable aversion to doing anything 
else. Perhaps I'd better be examined for hook-worm or 
something. 

"I wish I could think up some snappy reminiscences 
of college days for you, but about the only thing which 
stands out vividly is the biological excursions with Prof. 
Tip Tyler and his fat dog ; and hearing him say : 'Well, I 
might take one, too,' when I pulled out the 'Sweet Cap- 
orals' — we didn't have Turkish ones in those good old 
days. 

"I'm trying to kid myself into the belief that I can get 
away and be at the 25th. 

"Yama! Yama! Up with every glass! 

Yama! Yama! The toast at Amherst, Mass., 

Is still the same today though five and twenty years 

have passed. 
It's Ninety-Five and Georgie Olds, first, all the time, and 

last!" 



BENJAMIN LEON MILLER, 

AKE 
Manager, 
1055 McCormick Building, Chicago, Illinois. 

"Tell the Class to go to , and give my love to 

tlieir wives!" writes "Bennie" Miller. Isn't that like a 
characteristic slap on the back from happy and ruddy- 
cheeked "Bennie?" 

Although he left Amherst after six terms, he has 
always been a loyal member of the Class and will be on 
hand at the twenty-fifth reunion, as he was at the tenth 
and the fifteenth. That is the sort of spirit we like. 

"Bennie" was born August 14, 1872, in Chicago, Il- 
linois. He prepared for college at Beloit College Acad- 
emy, Wisconsin. 

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After leaving Amherst he engaged in business, and is 
now Manager of the Dupont Dye Stuff Co., Chicago, 
Illinois. 

Miller is a member of the Chicago Athletic Associa- 
tion, and of the Skokie Country Club. 

December 27, 1894, he married Louise Redfield of 
Evanston, Illinois. He has one child, Barbara, 1904. 



DWIGHT WHITNEY MORROW, B.A.-LL.B. 

Ben-OBK 

Banker, 

23 WaU Street, New York City. 

"Kid" Morrow, author of the famous poem, "Felapton, 
Bokardo, Fresison, Frinkee," the young Napoleon of 
'95, was born January 11, 1873, in Huntington, West 
Virginia. He prepared for college in the Allegheny High 
School, Pennsylvania. 

On his arrival in Amherst he was made a target for 
honors. If the faculty wished a monitor, there was Mor- 
row. If the Class wished a baseball team, there again 
was Morrow. As for the Armstrong Essay prize, the 
Kellogg Fifteen, the Walker Mathematics prize, the 
Lester prize, and a place on the Hyde Fifteen, who was 
better suited than Morrow! As for The Olio Board, how 
many an event was brightened by the quips that Mor- 
row wrote, including the song of "Felapton, Bokardo, 
Fresison, Frinkee," that convulsed the Board, and all 
but expelled the entire Class? Then The Lit called on 
Morrow to preside over it as Chairman. The Class made 
him Class Orator, and the faculty made him President of 
O B K and put him on the Commencement Stage for ex- 
position purposes. Morrow fairly sighed for worlds to 
conquer. 

So he went from Amherst, studied for a year in a 
law office in Pittsburgh, and then descended on the Co- 
lumbia Law School, from which he was graduated in 
1899. In that year he became connected with the firm of 

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Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett, of New York City, be- 
coming a member of the firm in 1905 and remaining with 
that firm until 1914, when he became a member of the 
firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. 

Morrow has continued his habit of collecting honors, 
and has done worthy service in many ways. 

During the World War he was Director and Chair- 
man of the War Savings Commission of New Jersey. 
In 1918 he went to England on a special mission for the 
American Shipping Commission. He was Adviser to the 
Allied Maritime Transport Council, the international 
body that dealt with shipping. He and Lloyd George and 
Rudyard Kipling consorted together in quite familiar 
style. He visited Europe twice during the War, and 
crossed the English Channel about twenty times under 
war conditions. He traveled through the army lines in 
France and Belgium with a military pass, that called him 
^'Civilian Adviser of the American Commander-in- 
Chief." He received decorations from the British and 
the French Governments as well as from the United 
States, — which gave him the Distinguished Service 
Medal. 

Morrow's work as Chairman of the Prison Inquiry 
Commission of New Jersey was so excellent that he was 
awarded the Congressional Medal, being one of five men 
thus honored. He is now Chairman of the New Jersey 
State Board of Institutes and Agencies, which directs all 
the penal institutions and charities of New Jersey. 

He is a member of the Board of Directors and of the 
Executive Committee of the New York Association for 
Improving the Condition of the Poor, and Chairman of 
the Finance Committee, now engaged in a great work 
for the relief of the unfortunate ; President of the Civic 
Association of Englewood, and Trustee and President 
of the Englewood Free Public Library. 

Morrow has written a number of magazine articles, 
and one book. The Society of Free States, published by 
Harper's. He has given public addresses without num- 
ber from Boston to Kansas City before Bar Associa- 
tions, Bankers' Conventions, Trade Conferences, Cham- 
bers of Commerce, and Colleges. 

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Morrow is a member of the Century Club, the City- 
Club, the Metropolitan Club, and the University Club of 
New York, and of the Englewood Country Club. 

July 16, 1903, he married Elizabeth Cutter of Cleve- 
land, Ohio. He has four children, Elizabeth, 1904, Anne, 
1906, Dwight, Jr., 1908, and Constance, 1913. 



EDWARD KENDALL MUNDY, B.A. 

AA<X)-OBK 
Auditor, 
The Standard Oil Company, 26 Broadway, New York City. 

"Eks" Mundy was born December 21, 1873, in Syra- 
cuse, New York, where he prepared for college in the 
local High School. 

In Amherst he studied with such good effect that he 
won high place in all his classes, and membership in 
<^ B K. He also appeared in the Kellogg Five, and 
among the winners of the Lester prizes. 

After graduation he returned to his native city and 
immediately entered into business, serving in the Solway 
Process Co. He is now Auditor with the Standard Oil 
Co., of New York. 

June 16, 1903, he married Maude Corey of Syracuse, 
New York. He has one child, Margaret, 1908. 



ELMER SLAYTON NEWTON, B.A..M.D. 

B0n 

Educator, 

3n4 Thirty-eighth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 

"Newt," to begin at the beginning, was born in Stur- 
bridge, Massachusetts, August 1, 1872. He prepared for 
college at the Spencer, Massachusetts, High School. 

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He says, "Kingsland was my favorite college sport.'^ 
"Newt" is remembered for dragging out of the dusty 
parts of the library many curious old volumes of "for- 
gotten lore." 

After "Newt" left Amherst he taught chemistry in 
the Medical Department of the State University of 
Iowa. From 1896 to 1898, not having had enough of 
Amherst, he returned to be Assistant in Chemistry. 

From 1898 until the present time he served in West- 
ern High School, Washington, District of Columbia, 
first as Teacher of Chemistry, and since 1915 as Princi- 
pal, and lord of all he surveys. 

In 1905 he won the degree of M. D. from George Wash- 
ington University. 

Newton has published the results of a special investi- 
gation concerning the preservation of milk, whereat many 
babies rejoice. 

He has traveled throughout the eastern part of the 
United States. 

During the war "Newt" was Chairman of the Local 
Draft Board of his District. 

June 16, 1902, he married Edna Towne of Washing- 
ton, District of Columbia. 

"Newt" says his one ambition in life is "To Make 
Teaching and the H. C. of L. coincide," an endeavor that 
is as fruitless as that of seeking perpetual motion. 



RANSOM PROCTOR NICHOLS, B.A.-M.A. 

Minister, 

Smyrna, Delaware. 

"Big Nick" is one of those men who can say truth- 
fully, "I am from Missouri," for he was born in Green- 
field, Missouri, November 3, 1873. He prepared for col- 
lege in the Summerville High School and in the North- 
ampton High School. 

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In college he was a member of the famous Freshman 
Baseball Team, and in Senior year was Baseball Di- 
rector. 

After leaving Amherst he was, from 1895 to 1897, 
Assistant Principal of the Southbridge, Massachusetts, 
High School. 

In 1898 and 1899 he was Advertising Manager of 
"The Spirit of '76" in New York City. This spirit took 
such hold of him that he enlisted in the Fourteenth New 
York Volunteers. He was on the Non-Commissioned 
Staff of the Fourteenth New York Volunteers. 

He was in camp at Camp Black, Chickamauga, and at 
Anniston. Then he sojourned in a hospital in Jersey 
City. He recovered so successfully that he was pro- 
moted from Corporal to Second Lieutenant of Volun- 
teers, and Chief Clerk in the Quartermaster's Depart- 
ment, in which he served at Ponce, Porto Rico, from 
1899 to 1900. 

Then he became Tax Examiner in the Bureau of In- 
ternal Revenue of the Treasury Department, at Porto 
Rico, where he remained until 1907. 

After all these warlike exploits, "Nick" became the 
peaceful Shepherd of a ministerial flock. In other words 
he became a Methodist minister, following in his father's 
footsteps. 

December 19, 1900, he returned to Amherst, and took 
from there something better than a diploma — a wife — 
for he married Harriet E. Brigham of Amherst, Massa- 
chusetts. He has two children, Doris, 1901, and Ran- 
som, 1902. 

"Nick" has traveled in Porto Rico and throughout 
the United States. 

Nichols is author of a series of articles entitled, "The 
Gospel in Literature,*' 

He has lectured on "The Gem of the Antilles," and 
"The Mormons at Close Range." He was Trustee of 
the Wesleyan Collegiate Institute, Dover, Delaware, and 
Manager of the Education Society of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. 

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"Nick" writes, "I do not wish to lay bare for unregen- 
erate mirth, a carefully concealed past." Certainly what 
we have been able to find out is highly creditable. We 
are proud of our war-like minister. "Onward, Christian 
Soldier!" 



HENRY RADCLIFFE NOYES, B.S.-LL.B. 

AY 
Lawyer, 
4 Westover Road, Montclair, New Jersey. 

"H. R." was born February 7, 1874, in Orange, New 
Jersey. He prepared for college at Lawrenceville 
Academy. 

After graduation he took up special study of the violin 
in Berlin Conservatory, Germany, 1895-1897. He then 
became a reporter on The New York Evening Sun. 

In 1898 he was a member of the United States Expe- 
ditionary Force in Porto Rico, — serving in the cavalry, 
— one of the many members of our Class to give active 
military service. 

In 1900 he entered the New York Law School, from 
which he won the degree of LL. B. 

Having specialized in economics, foreign trade, and in 
French, Spanish and German, he became Special Assist- 
ant to the Department of State in 1918 and 1919, repre- 
senting the United States War Trade Board at Madrid, 
Spain. 

He has traveled in France, Germany, England, Spain, 
Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, Northern Africa, and 
the West Indies. 

October 7, 1900, Noyes married Charlotte Overbury of 
New York City. He is a Mason and a member of the New 
York Athletic Club, and the Montclair Club. He solaces 
himself with the violin, and is devoted to the study of 
economics. 



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HENRY TAYLOR NOYES, JR. 




GEORGE DANIELS OLDS 



AMHERST '95 



HENRY TAYLOR NOYES, JR., B.A. 

AAO 
Merchant, 
Rochester, New York. 



"H. T." was born July 28, 1873, in Seneca Falls, New 
York. He prepared for college at the Rochester Free 
Academy, and spent one year in the University of 
Rochester. Then, luckily for '95, he came to Amherst in 
Sophomore year, and joined the class of '94. In our 
Senior year he entered '95. In the Amherst College 
Address List he is named as a graduate of '94. 

"H. T." was an Editor of The Student, member of the 
Athletic Team, and held places on the Kellogg Five, the 
Hyde Fifteen, and won a Lester Prize. 

He made the College Mile Bicycle Record, and won 
second prize in the Two Mile Bicycle Race at the N. E. 
I. A. A. meet. 

After graduation he acted for a year as Private Sec- 
retary to his father. Then he became Secretary, Treas- 
urer and Managing Director of the German- American 
Button Co., of Rochester, New York, now known as 
"Art in Buttons, Inc." 



GEORGE DANIELS OLDS, B.A..M.A. 

Educator, 

Amherst, Massachusetts. 



The following account of Professor Olds appeared in 
the '95 Olio, twenty-five years ago. To it we can only 
add that '95, from year to year, has realized more and 
more profoundly the noble qualities of Professor Old's 
life work. 

"Georgie" came to Amherst in 1891, — the year in 
which '95 entered. He won the affection of the Class 
immediately, and was admitted into full membership. 

A recitation in "Georgie's" room was something more 
than a recitation in "math" — it was a recitation in life, 

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— interesting, sparkling, helpful. The human note was 
struck and kept. Everyone who recited to "Georgie" 
was the better for it. 

As the years have gone by the affection of the Class 
for its Faculty member has increased. Long may he 
live and thrive, and continue to teach life and manliness 
as well as such things as 

A (Zh, + 2 Zh, + 3 Lhg + 4 Zh,) 

v= 

4 X 27 

To all the good things we said of him twenty-five 
years ago, we can only add a thousand more and say, 
"I told you so." 

PROFESSOR GEORGE D. OLDS. 

'The work of Professor Olds began at Amherst two 
years ago so quietly and naturally that the College 
hardly realized how strong a personality had found a 
place in its life. His work has been continued so stead- 
ily and successfully that he is no longer thought of as a 
member of the faculty. He has become fully identified 
with the life of Amherst in his relations with his col- 
leagues, with the students, to whom he is always ready 
to give limitless time and sympathetic personal atten- 
tion, and with the community. 

"George Daniel Olds was born October 14, 1853, in 
Middleport, New York. His early training was through 
observation of nature, rather than by the use of books. 
While he knew his multiplication table when he was 
four years old, his mother did not allow him to learn his 
letters until he was seven. 

"As a boy his health was delicate, and he did little 
systematic study before he was twelve; but love of 
Mathematics led him, even before he entered college, to 
read many books upon advanced Mathematics and 
Physics. 

"He entered the University of Rochester when 
he was sixteen. President Gates was then a Senior, 
and in their undergraduate life a friendship be- 
gan between the two, which was ripened by six years' 
work together at the Albany Academy, and grows 

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HALBERT CRESSY PHILIPS 



AMHERST '95 

stronger from year to year. In college, Professor Olds 
acquired easily; but nevertheless he spent from five to 
six hours, and much of the time nine or ten hours a 
day, in systematic work, besides the hours spent at lec- 
tures, or in the recitation room. He used his time first 
in the regular work of the course; but in addition to 
that, he gave himself constant practice in composition, 
upon themes that interested him, and he read widely in 
English Literature, History, Political Science and Po- 
litical Economy. 

"In the list of college honors he took the Fresh- 
man prize in Mathematics, upon an examination on 
Davie's Bourdon. He received an honorable mention 
for excellence in declamation, in his Sophomore year. 
In his Junior year he took the first Greek prize 
for an examination upon Aristotle's Ethics; and in 
Senior year, although an attack of typhoid fever kept 
him from college more than half of the first term, he 
took the Senior prize for the best essay upon 'The Lit- 
erary and Political Significance of De Foe's Writings/ 
the Stoddard medal for an examination upon the entire 
Mathematics of the four years' course (including Cal- 
culus, Physics and Astronomy) together with an es- 
pecial examination upon 'Surfaces of the Second Or- 
der;' and on graduation was awarded the second of the 
Davis medals, *for the best written and best delivered 
oration on Commencement Day.' 

"The promise of this brilliant record in his early stu- 
dent days has been made good from the first in his pro- 
fessional work. Graduating in June, 1873, in Septem- 
ber he was engaged as instructor in the Albany Acad- 
emy, of which President Gates was then principal. Dur- 
ing the six years of his work at the Academy the range 
of his teaching was wide. 

"After a year or two his work centered strongly in 
French, and he was requested by the trustees of the 
Academy to spend a few months in France, and to take 
charge of the department of French, an important one, 
since the systematic use of French text books in other 
subjects had recently been introduced into the Academy. 

"In the summer of 1874 he made his first trip to Europe, 
and while he perfected himself in the French language, 
he studied mathematics in Paris, and attended the lec« 

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tures of the famous astronomer, Leverrier. On his re- 
turn he visited points of interest in England and Scot- 
land. 

"In January, 1877, the authorities of the acad- 
emy voted him six months* leave of absence for the 
benefit of his health, and he traveled extensively 
in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. He was fortu- 
nate enough to see something of buffalo, hunting in 
one of the last years before the large herds disappeared. 
He crossed the mountains to Santa Fe, visited the Span- 
ish placer mines at Albuquerque, went with a detach- 
ment of United States troops through the Canyon of the 
Rio Grande to the ancient village of Taos, to Pueblo, 
after spending six months at Colorado Springs, and re- 
turned to his work after an experience in roughing it 
which had greatly contributed to his physical strength, 
and to his knowledge of men and of the world. During 
much of the time he had slept under the open sky; and 
he took no books with him except the Bible and Shake- 
speare. 

"In 1878 and 1879 he continued his work in the Al- 
bany Academy, in the last year sharing with a colleague 
the responsibility of administration, in the absence of 
the Principal who was spending a year in foreign travel. 

"In 1879 he resigned his position at Albany, to carry out 
a long-cherished plan of pursuing an extended course of 
study at European universities. After two months spent 
in England and Switzerland he settled at Heidelberg. 
Establishing himself in a German family, he studied 
the language diligently preparatory to the opening of 
the fall semester. 

"During his first year at Heidelberg he studied 
pure mathematics under Professor Fuchs, and ex- 
perimental physics, with laboratory practice, under 
Professor Quincke. He became intimately acquainted 
with the great German publicist, Doctor Bluntschli, 
and this acquaintance led to his accepting Dr. Blunt- 
schli's invitation to accompany him to England in the 
summer of 1880, for the purpose of attending the meet- 
ing of the Institute of International Law, of which 
Doctor Bluntschli was President — a journey which add- 
ed to the breadth of Professor Olds's acquaintance with 
men and scholars, and to his interest in Political Science. 

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Soon after his residence at Heidelberg began he was 
chosen a member of the Mathematical Society, com- 
posed of professors and students of the University, and 
took active part in its discussions, preparing for it a 
series of papers upon Newton's method of attacking 
physical problems, as that method is developed in the 
Principia; and contrasting this with the analytical 
method which had been favored by most German mathe- 
maticians. In the same year he was elected President 
of the Anglo-American Club at Heidelberg. 

"The spring vacation was spent in a brief tour into 
Italy, by way of Nuremberg, Munich and the Brenner 
Pass. In the summer vacation he visited Austria and 
crossing the Austrian Alps to the Tyrol, stopped to wit- 
ness the *Tassion-play" at Oberammergau. 

"The first semester of the next year was passed in the 
University of Berlin, where he heard lectures by Pro- 
fessors Kirchoff and Helmholtz in Mathematical Physics, 
and by Professors Weierstrass and Kummer in Pure 
Mathematics, with Von Treitschke's and Wagner's lec- 
tures on Politics and Political Economy. 

"In the Spring vacation he visited Dresden, Verona, 
Venice, Milan, Genoa and Nice ; and pursued his political 
studies by spending some time at Nice, in the family of a 
French Communist. For the summer semester of this 
year he returned to Heidelberg and in the vacation that 
followed he took a walking trip in Switzerland, and spent 
some weeks in Stuttgart in the special study, with a Ger- 
man actor, of Goethe's Faust. 

"In the third year of his university life, in 1881, and 
1882, he continued the study of Mathematics at Heidel- 
berg, and took a course in the History of Philosophy 
with Professor Kuno Fischer. 

"At the close of the first semester he received the first 
prize for an examination upon the Seminar work in 
Mathematics and Physics. At this time, too, he was 
elected a member of the Executive Committee of the stu- 
dents of the University, the first American to receive 
that honor. 

"In March of 1882 he visited America. After three 
months, he returned again to his study at Heidelberg, 
and putting himself under pressure to accomplish in six 

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weeks the work of the summer semester, his health gave 
way under the strain; seeking recreation in travel, he 
went to Bayreuth, to be present at the presentation of 
Parsifal, the last of Wagner's great operas; and in his 
fourth tour in Switzerland, while crossing the pass to 
Martigny, he caught a severe cold which developed into 
an illness from which he did not fully recover for two 
years. 

"Ordered by his physician to Mentone, after a re- 
lapse, he went to Egypt to spend the winter. His partial 
recovery found him studying earnestly the archaeology 
and customs of the country. His strength did not allow 
him to resume his studies in Germany, and after his re- 
turn to America, in the summer of 1883, he was com- 
pelled to pass a year in comparative inactivity. 

"In 1884 he was sufficiently recovered to accept the ap- 
pointment of assistant professor of Mathematics, offered 
him by his Alma Mater. In June, 1886, he was appointed 
full professor of Mathematics, in charge of the depart- 
ment, at the University of Rochester. In the same month 
he was married to Miss Marion E. Leland, a sister of 
Doctor George A. Leland of Amherst '74. 

"Professor Olds is still comparatively a young man, 
and is just entering upon his life work. His wide and 
varied experience, his opportunities for study at the 
strongest centers of intellectual life, his strong will, his 
Christian courtesy, the fine and contagious enthusiasm 
which is felt in all his work, and inspires his students, 
and his reverent, outspoken loyalty to Christ, have given 
to his work at Rochester and at Amherst a force and an 
influence which are widely recognized, and have been 
felt in the lives of many students. Friends of Amherst 
look with interest and high hope to many years of work 
here by one whom all honor and love." 

IN LATER YEARS 

What has Georgie done since June '95 ? 

That very summer, he went to Europe for his vaca- 
tion, to be caught in the meshes of some fascinating 
mathematics courses at Gottingen. He did, however, 
manage to get in a walking trip through the Vosges 
mountains. 

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AUGUSTUS THOMAS POST 




JOSEPH ANDREWS POWELL 



AMHERST '95 

In 1900-01 he was absent on Sabbatical leave, taking 
his family with him and making his headquarters in 
Gottingen, but varying the program by trips through 
Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. 

He returned to find himself a member of the newly 
created Administration Committee, and with the excep- 
tion of one year he has been a member ever since. This 
means that the administrative side of the college has 
more and more engrossed his time and thought. In 
1906-07, in the absence of President Harris, he was act- 
ing head of the College. 

In the winter of 1908, he went abroad again to attend 
the meeting of the International Congress of Mathema- 
ticians at Rome, and remained in Europe until June, 
traveling through Italy, Greece, Switzerland, and Ger- 
many. 

The following year, he was chosen Secretary of the 
Faculty, a title which was changed a few years later 
to "Dean." 

With Mrs. Olds, he spent the winter of 1913-14 in 
Northern Africa and Sicily. 

The war period proved rather strenuous for him, and 
accordingly the President and Trustees dismissed him 
again for three months in the winter of 1917-18. With 
Mrs. Olds and his younger daughter, he had a most 
refreshing and delightful experience on the Pacific Slope. 

Last June he was due to retire in accordance with the 
general regulation governing retirement, but the Board 
decided that it could stand him a little longer and asked 
him to remain for '95's twenty-fifth reunion, and a year 
longer to recover from the joy of the occasion. 

Diu vivat et semper sentiat Classis Millensimi Octin- 
gentensimi Nonagensimi Quinti erga se amorem. 



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ROBERT BAYLEY OSGOOD, B.A.-M.D. 

Physician and Surgeon, 

38 Chestnut Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 



"Cupid" has led a much more serious life than his 
college nickname would indicate. At the House of the 
Good Samaritan in Boston, at the Massachusetts General 
Hospital, — in both of which places he was House Of- 
ficer, — and in various hospitals in France and England 
during the World War, men remember the kindly, capa- 
ble, ingenious Dr. Osgood as one who brought relief and 
return to life. 

"Cupid" was born in Salem, Massachusetts, July 6, 
1873, and prepared for college at the Salem High School. 

In college he was a prominent member of the Senior 
Dramatics, and of the ever famous Glee Club. 

His life since Amherst days has been entirely devoted 
to medicine, from 1895 to 1898 as a student at the Har- 
vard Medical School, and from 1900 on, as hospital sur- 
geon and practising physician. 

During the World War he was Major, and Chief of 
Surgical Service in Base Hospital No. 5, in France, in 
1917, Assistant Director of Orthopaedic Surgery in 
England in the latter part of 1917, and Consult- 
ant in Orthopaedic Surgery in France and in Washing- 
ton in 1918. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 
July, 1918, and to Colonel of the Reserve Corps in 1919. 

He has been Visiting Orthopaedic Surgeon and Chief 
of the Orthopaedic Service in Massachusetts General 
Hospital, and is now Instructor in Surgery and Ortho- 
paedic Surgery in the Harvard Medical School. 

Both for study and pleasure, as well as for war service, 
he traveled in Germany, Switzerland, France, England, 
Scotland, Wales, Austria and Spain, in Jamaica and in 
various parts of the United States and Canada. 

In collaboration with Goldthwait and Painter, he pub- 
lished ^'Diseases of the Bones and Joints," and has writ- 
ten a number of important medical papers, in addition 
to giving medical and public health addresses. 

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HERBERT LEE PRATT 



AMERICA IN EUROPE 

A PAPER PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF GOOD FELLOWSHIP AMONG ALL NATIONS. 



EUROPE COMPAHY. FVANKFURT t 



MONQAY, AUGUST 19, 1918 



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AMHERST '95 

On April 29, 1902, he married Margaret Chapin of 
Brookline, Massachusetts. He has one child, Ellen, born 
June 28, 1915. 

Osgood is a member of the Union Club, the Harvard 
Club and the Union Boat Club of Boston. "Cupid" is 
leading a fine, useful life of which Amherst is proud. 



CHARLES RAY OTIS, M.D. 

AY 

Physician, 

32 Main Street, Dundee, New York, 

Otis was with the Class six terms, leaving in Sopho- 
more year. He was born February 14, 1872, in Dundee, 
New York, where he is now practicing medicine. 

Otis prepared for college privately with Henry W. 
Callahan. 

When he left Amherst he entered the Medical School 
of Columbia University from which he was graduated 
in 1896. He has for many years been a successful physi- 
cian in his native town. 



In Memoriam 

THEODORE ATTWATER PENNEY, B.S. 

eAx 



Do you remember the terrible Freshman-Sophomore 
Cane rush in Freshman year? To our young eyes it 
seemed a more deadly combat than any that had ever 
taken place in the world's great battles. There in the 
midst of it, his shirt torn from him, his body bleed- 
ing and a finger broken, was "Penney," the giant, fight- 
ing for '95. 

He, too, big, strong, kindly and faithful, has passed 
away. 

How clearly we remember the mimeographed notes 

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that he brought around so faithfully, saving us from all 
sorts of trouble. 

Penney was born November 26, 1866, in Cambridge, 
Illinois. 

He prepared for college in the Salt Lake City Acade- 
my, Utah. 

In Amherst his great size and strength made him a 
powerful member of the Football Team for three years. 

After graduation Penney became a teacher, teaching 
science at Newburgh, New York, 1895 to 1896, and at 
Dudley Academy, Massachusetts, 1897 to 1899. There 
he did especially good work in mathematics, and organ- 
ized a weekly Shakespeare Club. 

While swimming in 1899 in a pond near Dudley he 
was drowned. His body was buried in the cemetery at 
Dudley, not a relative or intimate friend being present 
at the funeral. 



EDWARD FRANKLIN PERRY, M.D. 

AY 

Physician, 

56 Main Street, Putnam, Connecticut. 

Perry was a member of '95 during Freshman year 
only. Then he withdrew from *95 and left Amherst for 
a time. He returned and was with '96 for three terms. 

Perry was born October 8, 1871, in Pomfret, Connecti- 
cut. He prepared for college at McGaw Institute, Reed's 
Ferry, New Hampshire. 

From Amherst Perry went to the Medical School of 
Long Island College Hospital, from which he was gradu- 
ated in 1897. He served for a time as Interne in vari- 
ous hospitals, including St. John's Hospital, Yonkers, 
New York, and the Brooklyn Hospital. He practised 
medicine in Wellfleet for some time before he moved 
to Putnam. He was for a time Associate Medical Ex- 
aminer for Barnstable County. 

He married Edith Smith of Washington, Connecticut. 

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HALBERT CRESSY PHILIPS, B.A. 

AKE-OBK 
Edncator, 
Glenbrook, Connecticut. 

"Phil" was born in Bernardston, Massachusetts, Jan- 
uary 4, 1874. He prepared for college at the Oakman 
High School, Turners Falls, Massachusetts. 

In Amherst he won the distinction of being at the 
same time a good fellow and a wearer of a O B K Key. 

After leaving Amherst he was for a time with a manu- 
facturer of stationery in New York City. 

In 1897, after recovery from a severe attack of ty- 
phoid fever, he began teaching in Turners Falls, Mas- 
sachusetts, where he remained until 1900. 

From 1900 to 1904 he taught in Stamford, Connecti- 
cut, and from 1905 to 1906 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 
In 1907 ill health compelled him to drop all work for a 
time. From 1908 to 1909 he taught in North Adams, Mas- 
sachusetts. In 1910 he became a teacher in Stamford, 
Connecticut, where he is still the same genial, quiet and 
kindly person that he has always been. 

December 23, 1901, he married Persis Coy of Turners 
Falls, Massachusetts. He has four children, Halbert,. 
1903, Alice, 1906, Kenneth, 1908, and Edward, 1911. 



AUGUSTUS THOMAS POST, B.A. 

AAO 
Secretary of the Aero Club of America, 
297 Madison Avenue, New York City. 

Here is a man who has done more dare-devil stunts 
than any other man in the Class, for what with racing 
in automobiles; flying in aeroplanes before folks knew 
much about them ; dropping out of balloons, and through 
roofs of houses; being lost in Canadian forests, and oth- 

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erwise facing "sudden destruction," "Gus" has certainly 
led an adventurous life. 

Post started that adventurous career away back in 
1891, vi^hen he was brave enough to act as first President 
of '95! 

"Gus" was born December 8, 1873, in Brooklyn, New 
York. He prepared for college at the Brooklyn Poly- 
technic Institute. 

In Amherst he appeared on the Glee Club, and in the 
Athletic Team. From 1895 until 1896 he studied in the 
Harvard Law School. Then he became a banker with 
E. D. Shepherd & Co., New York City. 

Post has traveled around the world, and throughout 
the countries of Europe. During the World War he 
was active and energetic in patriotic work. He organ- 
ized the Foreign Service Committee of the A. C. A., and 
again visited Europe, this time on a mission for the 
Aero Club of America. He served also in this country in 
Y. M. C. A. work and as a Four Minute Speaker for the 
Liberty Loans. 

Post's energy is further shown by the fact that he 
has been Chairman of the Touring Committee of the 
A. A. A., twice Manager of Glidden Tours, and a daring 
aviator at Hammondsport, New York. He is now Sec- 
retary of the Aero Club of America, and Secretary of 
the New York State Commission on Aeronautics and 
Aviation. He was for a time Captain in the Aviation 
Section of the New York City Police Reserve. 

"Gus" has had more adventures than would fill several 
books, as is indicated by the titles of some of his many 
magazine articles: 

"A Fall from the Sky" ''Lost in Canada" ''Flyers of 
the World," "Glenn Curtis" etc., etc. 

"Gus" has given addresses on Aviation in nearly 
every college and university in the United States. 

In 1910 he won the Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, 
making a most adventurous journey through the air, and 
landing in the unknown wastes of Canada. For a time 
he was given up as lost, but he made his way through 
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rough but kindly foresters who gave him food and 
shelter. 

In 1911 and 1912 he was with the Guy Bates Post 
Co., in "Omar, the Tent Maker," which was perhaps an 
adventure also. 

In 1897 he married Emma Thacker Kaye. 

He is a member of the A A O Club of New York, the 
Aero Club of America, the Musicians' Club, the Camp- 
fire Club of America, and the Harvard Association. 

Post says, ''College life was and is a sweet dream to 
me. I remember walks in the Wheatly Hills and rides 
over the fields on horseback, and walking in the mile 
walk on the track team with 'Skinny' Houghton. 

"I see 'Old Doc' and remember his endearing man- 
ner, — and I cannot refrain from speaking a good word 
for 'Peanut John,' who was sunny like his country. I 
could name all, including 'Prexy' Gates, 'Little Doc,' 
*Eph,' Crowell, Clark, Emerson with his bushy whiskers, 
Garman, Tyler, Todd and all the rest. 

"I have just returned from a most interesting trip 
through Europe, and was fortunate to be able to fly 
from London to Brussels, over Flanders and the bat- 
tlefields of Belgium, and from Brussels to Paris, over 
all the devastated districts of Northern France. 

"I am writing this in Roosevelt Hospital, where I 
have been since my return from Europe, recovering 
from a major operation." 

The Class chose its first President wisely. He is 
quite a man. 



PALMER AUGUSTUS POTTER, B.S.-M.D. 

Physician, 

Waldorf-Astoria, New York. 

Palmer Potter, famous for his part in Senior Dra- 
matics, and for his efforts on the Class Cider Team in 
Junior year, entered Amherst in Sophomore year from 

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the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, where he had pre- 
pared for college. 

Potter was born August 11, 1873, in New York City. 

After he left Amherst he studied medicine in the Col- 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, from 
which he was graduated in 1899. He was for a time 
House Officer at the City Hospital, and House Physician 
in the Nursery and Child's Hospital, New York. Since 
then he has been a practising physician in New York 
City, giving special attention to diseases of children. 

He has published a number of articles on diseases of 
children in various medical journals, and has also con- 
tributed to the subject of pediatrics. He is the author 
of an article on the Psychology of Military Training. 

He is a member of the Medical Reserve Corps of the 
United States Army. 

Potter has traveled in Europe and in Porto Rico. 

He is a member of the New York Athletic Club, and 
of various Masonic bodies. 

April 8, 1909, he married Ida Bennett of Montclair, 
New Jersey. 



JOSEPH ANDREWS POWELL, B.A. 

Ben 

Manager, Machinists Supply Company, 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

"Joe," "President Joe," or "Prexy," the honored Ex- 
ecutive of the Class for four succeeding terms, more 
terms than any President of the United States has 
served, was born December 14, 1870, in Nashua, New 
Hampshire. He prepared for college at Phillips An- 
dover. 

"Joe" was one of the famous Freshman Baseball 
Team of '95. 

When he left Amherst he studied law for two years 

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with Austin Abbott, in New York City, and in New York 
University, and then turned to the business world. He 
was for a time with the Stanley Rule and Level Com- 
pany, in New Britain, Connecticut, then from 1900 to 
1906, with the Gem Manufacturing Company, and from 
1907 to 1916 with the Baird Machine Company. He is 
now Manager of The Machinists' Supply Company of 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

On January 15, 1913, Powell married Clara Willhide 
of Hagerstown, Maryland. 

He is a member of the Americus Republican Club. 

"Joe" writes: *The years have passed quickly, not 
without their sorrows. And yet they have been good to 
me. I have good health, if not wealth; happiness of 
mind, if not the exaltation from heroic accomplishments ; 
a fine and helpful wife, if not a large brood of children 
and the accompanying cares ; and above all, the inspiring 
memories of the happy days passed with you all. Best 
wishes and kind expressions of love and fealty to '95." 



HERBERT LEE PRATT, B.A. 

AAO 
Manufacturer, 
1027 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 



"Bert," Captain of the Football Team, member of the 
Athletic Team, member of the Class Baseball Team, 
member of the famous Cider Team, — not to speak of 
the Cotillion Club, — and Class Secretary for Senior 
year, was born November 21, 1871, in Brooklyn, New 
York. 

"H. L." prepared for college at Adelphi Academy, 
Brooklyn. 

Immediately after leaving Amherst he entered into 
active work with the Standard Oil Co., first as Clerk 
with the Bergen Point Chemical Works, and then as As- 
sistant to the Manager of the Pratt Works and the 

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Queens County Works. He is now Vice President and 
Director of the Standard Oil Co. of New York. 

Pratt is President and Director of Frederick Loeser & 
Co., Inc., the leading department store of Brooklyn, 
member of the firm of Charles Pratt & Co., Trustee of 
the Bankers' Trust Co., and Trustee of Pratt Institute. 

In 1917 and 1918 he was Commissioner of Farms and 
Markets for New York State. He was Chairman of 
the International Y. M. C. A., and aided in reorganizing 
the Canadian Service in France. 

"Bert" did most valuable service in Europe during 
the War, and had the honor of being specially attacked 
by German propaganda in a newspaper printed in Eng- 
lish in Frankfort, Germany, which was spread through- 
out Germany and dropped from aeroplanes into the 
American trenches. The paper pictured "Bert" stand- 
ing in a pillory, beneath which appeared in large letters, 
"Herbert L. Pratt is a Liar!" Elsewhere in the paper, 
propaganda articles attacked the truth of "Bert's" asser- 
tions that the Germans had committed barbarous and 
inhuman acts, and had acted against the recognized cus- 
toms of civilized nations. That paper is one of "Bert's" 
most treasured possessions. A man is known by the 
enemies he makes. "Bert" evidently got under the out- 
side skin of the tough German hide, and hurt the Teu- 
tonic feeling. Hurrah for him! 

"Bert" is a member of the Racket and Tennis Club, 
the University Club, the Metropolitan Club, the Riding 
Club, the Links, the Recess Club, the Downtown Asso- 
ciation, the Piping Rock Club, the Nassau Country Club, 
the Sons of the American Revolution, and other or- 
ganizations. 

Pratt has traveled extensively throughout the United 
States, in Europe, in Mexico and in Cuba. 

"Bert" has been a generous giver for the public good. 
In 1913 he gave to the Y. M. C. A. College at Springfield 
the "McCurdy Natatorium." In 1914 he gave $25,000 for 
the purchase of a new summer camp for Y. M. C. A. 
boys, at Woodville, Staten Island. The site consists of 
seventeen acres, having 450 feet frontage on Prince's 
Bay. 

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WILLIAM BEACH PRATT 




JONATHAN ANSEL RAWSON, JR. 



AMHERST '95 

He placed a fleet of fire tugs, fully equipped, at the 
command of the New York City Fire Department. For 
such valuable aid in fighting waterfront fires the New 
York City Fire Department presented him a Gold Fire 
Badge. With Mainzer fighting fires on land, and "Bert" 
fighting fires on water the world is safe for a time, at 
least. 

With all his greatness and glory, "Bert" today is still 
the same happy, hearty, boyish good fellow that he was 
when he smashed the line on the Football team twenty- 
five years ago. 

April 21, 1897, he married Florence Gibb of Brooklyn. 
He has five children, Edith, 1898, Herbert, 1900, Har- 
riet, 1901, Florence, 1905, and Frederick, 1907. 



WILLIAM BEACH PRATT, 

AAO 
Chemical Engineer, 
33 Pine Street, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. 



"Bill" was born October 22, 1872, in Elmira, New 
York. He prepared for college at Lawrenceville School, 
New Jersey. He entered Amherst in 1893, in Sophomore 
year. 

He served on the Athletic Team and the B. A. A. 
Team, and was Vice President of the Class in Senior 
year. 

In spite of most serious eye trouble, which necessi- 
tated a long ocean voyage to Australia and the far East, 
he accomplished a great deal, and won the hearts of all 
who knew him. 

"Bill" studied medicine two years in the University 
of Pennsylvania, specializing in Chemistry. Then, per- 
haps anticipating the World War, he took up the manu- 
facture of explosives with the Joviate Manufacturing 
Co., of Elmira. 

In 1905 he became a Chemical Engineer, and is now 

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head of of the W. B. Pratt Inc. Commercial and Syn- 
thetical Laboratory. 

In addition to his voyage around the world, he has 
visited Europe, and has investigated rubber properties 
in Panama. 

Pratt is a member of the Boston City Club, and the 
Wellesley Country Club. 

June 8, 1898, he married Annette Harris of Amherst, 
Massachusetts, daughter of Professor E. P. Harris of 
Amherst. He has three children, Margaret, 1900, Eliza- 
beth, 1901, and Edward, — who will enter Amherst next 
year,— 1903. 

**Biir* says his two and one-half years at Amherst 
were "the best and most interesting of my life." He 
also adds, **I went into the explosive business at an early 
date, blew up, and have ever since been trying to get 
down to earth financially." 

''W. B." adds further, "One thing that I have been 
able to do, in spite of explosives and the like, is to edu- 
cate three children, — one to graduate from Vassar this 
year, one in the second year at Cornell, and my son and 
partner, — ready for Amherst this Fall." Good for "Bill." 



RUSSELL EDWARDS PRENTISS, B.A. 

WY 
Broker, 
51 Willow Street, Brooklyn, New York. 

"Prent," hale and hearty "Prent," was born April 25, 
1874, in Brooklyn, New York. He prepared for col- 
lege in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and at the 
Brooklyn Latin School. 

In Amherst he was a general good fellow, with a 
jolly word for everyone. 

Immediately after leaving college he became a stock 
broker, with the firm of George H. Prentiss & Co. 
He has been a member of the New York Stock Ex- 

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ALFRED ROELKER 



AMHERST '95 

change since 1898. He can tell you the state of the 
market at any time, and can show you exactly how 
to get rich. 

December 1, 1897, he married Adella Carman, of 
Brooklyn. 



JONATHAN ANSEL RAWSON, JR., B.A. 

0AX 
Publisher, 
124 East Twenty-eighth Street, New York City. 

When the class of *95 arrived in Amherst it found 
"Johnnie" Rawson on the spot, pencil in hand, ready to 
report all proceedings, for "Johnnie" is a real Amherst 
man, born in Amherst, November 15, 1871. 

"Johnnie" prepared for college at the Amherst High 
School, and from his earliest infancy knew all about 
class yells, rushing, and the idiosyncrasies of all the 
"Profs." 

Even before he entered college he was working for 
The Student, so naturally, when he did enter college, he 
became Editor, and finally Managing Editor of The Stu- 
dent and Editor in Chief and President of The Olio 
Board. 

When he left college he continued to wield the pencil, 
first on the City Staff of The New York Tribune for 
three years; then with The Business Publishing Co., of 
New York, for one year; then as Business Manager of 
The Mining and Metallurgical Journal. 

From 1907 to 1910 he engaged in the export trade; 
from 1911 to 1916 returning to writing, with farming as 
a diversion; from 1917 to 1919, taking up Y. M. C. A. 
War work combined with publishing. He is novv^ a full- 
fledged publisher in his own name. 

"Johnnie" united with F. S. Crawford, '97, in writing 
Our Army and Navy. He is the editor of Partnership; 
Bookkeeping, Frauds and Methods for Their Detection, 
and Successful Methods in Business, and he is the author 
of a great number of magazine articles. 

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Rawson served as Press Manager for the Brooklyn 
Citizens' Committee in a city campaign, Press Man- 
ager for the Kings County Republican Committee, and 
Member of a local School Committee. 

June 15, 1907, he married Edna M. Nicholl of Scotch 
Plains, New Jersey. He has two children, Jonathan, 
1910, and Priscilla Alden, 1911. 



In Memoriam 

BENJAMIN EASTWOOD RAY, B.A. 

OPA-OBK 



"Benny" Ray was born March 7, 1873, in Leeds, Mas- 
sachusetts, where his father was Treasurer of the Nono- 
tuck Silk Co. He prepared for college in the Northamp- 
ton High School. 

In Amherst he was an excellent student and won a 
place in O B K and on the Commencement Stage. 

After graduation he entered Andover Theological 
Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1898. 

Ray was Pastor of the Congregational Church at Ne- 
koosa, Wisconsin, for five years. 

In 1902 he supplied at Deerfield, Massachusetts, thus 
preaching near Amherst. He held the pastorate at Genoa 
Junction, Wisconsin, two and one-half years. Ill health 
made it necessary for him to return east for a season. 
During the five years of his pastorate in De Pere, Wis- 
consin, he built a new church. His last church was at 
Baraboo, Wisconsin, where he went in 1913. 

He was President of the Baraboo Valley Ministerial 
Association, Chaplain of the Sons of Veterans, and 
member of the Fortnightly Club. 

October 3, 1899, he married Ada Peers of Rockford, 
Illinois. 

Ray died of pneumonia, January 7, 1916. 

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Of a sincere and earnest nature, Ray must have made 
an excellent Pastor. Everyone who knew him knows that 
he always did his best in any work that was given him. 

Ray left three children, Lawrence, Peers, and Helen. 



HARRY OTTO RHODES, Bj^..LL.B. 

OTA-OAA 
Lawyer, 
902 East Costilla Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado. 

"Dusty" Rhodes was an acquisition to the Class in 
Junior year, coming to Amherst from Wittenburg Uni- 
versity, Ohio. 

He was born December 22, 1869, in North Manchester, 
Indiana. He prepared for college in the North Man- 
chester High School and in Wittenburg Academy, Ohio. 

Although he was with the Class only one year, he 
gained a place on the Hyde Fifteen. 

From Amherst he went to the Chicago Law School, 
from which he was graduated in 1897 as Valedictorian 
of his class. 

At various times he has been a soldier, a steel worker, 
and a rancher, as well as a lawyer. 

He has traveled throughout Europe, and in Canada, 
Mexico, and Cuba. He says his motto is, "See America 
first!" 

When asked about his work for charity he replies: 
"See Matthew, 6th chapter, 3d and 4th verses." Those 
of the Class who have Bibles can look up the reference. 

He returned to his native town of North Manchester, 
Indiana, where he practiced law until the Spanish War. 
He enlisted in Co. H, 160th Indiana Infantry, April 25, 
1898, and served with that regiment in active service in 
Cuba and elsewhere until April 25, 1899. 

He is now a practicing lawyer in Colorado Springs. 

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ALFRED ROELKER, B.A.LL.B.A.E.C. (Universite de Paris), 

Lawyer, 

103 East Seventy-eighth Street, New York City. 



"Al" is certainly worthy of the highest respect. Be- 
yond the military age, with a good law practice, a happy 
home, and three children, he left everything and volun- 
teered as a soldier of the United States and of Democracy 
in the World War. Not only that, but he took the dan- 
gerous position of Captain of Company A, 305th Ma- 
chine Gun Battalion, in which capacity, as a member 
of the A. E. F., he saw active service in the terrible 
battles from August 1, 1917, to July 15, 1919. Fortunate- 
ly he was not wOunded. Such service as he gave is noble 
service indeed, and an honor to Amherst spirit and the 
Class of '95. 

"Al" was born at New Brighton, Staten Island, New 
York, April 7, 1875. He escaped to Manhattan and fitted 
for college at Dr. Sach*s Collegiate Institute. 

On his arrival in Amherst he was immediately dubbed 
"Spider," and then proceeded to walk off with the third 
Latin prize in Freshman year, to get on the Kellogg Fif- 
teen, the Kellogg Five and the Hyde Fifteen, and to par- 
ticipate in the Lester prize speaking. 

Three years of study at Columbia University Law 
School led to his admission to the bar in June, 1898. 
With the exception of thrashing the Huns, he has prac- 
tised law ever since. 

On January 12, 1905, he married Millicent W. Turle 
of Brooklyn, New York. Like the king in the old story 
book, he has three daughters, Roberta, 1905, Kattrina, 
1909, and Hildegarde, 1913. 

"Al" was known in Europe before the war, for he 
went there on three different occasions before he entered 
Amherst; and in 1894 was one of the warblers of the 
Amherst Glee Club that so utterly astonished England 
that it has ever since confused American colleges with 
minstrel shows. 

Roelker is a member of the University Club, the Re- 
form Club, the Army and Navy Club, the Bar Associa- 

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FREDERICK EDMOND SEARS 




WALTER CLARK SEELYE 

ARTHUR, HARRIET, EDWIN MARY, LAURENUS 



AMHERST *95 

tion and Squadron A, the "crack" cavalry squadron of 
Greater New York. 



ALFRED MERRIMAN ROWLEY, M.D.-FA.C.S. 

Physician, 

803 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut. 

Rowley was with the Class less than a year, for he left 
at the end of the second term. He then went to the 
Medical College of the University of Vermont from which 
he was graduated in 1897. 

Rowley is now a successful physician in Hartford, 
Connecticut. 

He was born September 22, 1876, at Pottsdam, New 
York. 

Rowley was for a time Visiting Surgeon in the Hart- 
ford Hospital and Medical Inspector for the Hartford 
Board of Health. He is a member of the Hartford Golf 
Club and the Hartford Club. 

In 1902 he married Carlotta Muiioz. 

He writes, "The Class has my best wishes for a bully 
time at the twenty-fifth." 



WRIGHT COOLIDGE SAMPSON, B.S. 

WY 
Stationer and Printer, 
57 Hollister Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

"Pink a pong," "pink a pong," don't you hear Samp- 
son's banjo going as it used to go when he was a mem- 
ber of the Banjo Club? Do you remember the part he 
played in Senior Dramatics? Or his work as Tennis Di- 
rector? And who else was Chairman of the Class Cup 
Committee than good old "Jo"? 

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"Jo" was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 24, 1872. He 
prepared for college at the Franklin School, Cincinnati, 
and went for a year to the University of Iowa. Then he 
woke up and came to Amherst, which welcomed him 
with open arms. 

After he left Amherst, "Jo" was for some years with 
the Globe-Wernicke Co., and later went to the W. B. Car- 
penter Co., Stationers and Printers, Cincinnati, Ohio, of 
which he is Secretary and Treasurer. 

October 17, 1899, he married Alice Elliott of Cincin- 
nati, Ohio. We are glad to record that he has three 
stalwart sons, William, 1900, Wright, 1902, and James, 
1907. 



ALBERT LEWIS SCHUYLER, M.D. 

OA0 
Chemist and Bacteriologist, 
48 Carlyle Street, New Haven, Connecticut. 

Schuyler is one of the good men who left the Class at 
the end of the Freshman year. He was born September 
13, 1871, at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. 

"Al" prepared for college in the High School at Water- 
bury, Connecticut. 

After leaving Amherst, he entered the Bellevue Hos- 
pital Medical College, and also studied in the Baltimore 
Medical School. He gained the degree of M. D. in 1895. 

He is now Chemist and Bacteriologist for the New 
Haven Dairy Co. 

December 24, 1896, Schuyler married Lillie Powell of 
Baltimore, Maryland. He has four children, Louis, 1898, 
Ray, 1900, Robert, 1902, and William, 1904. His son 
Ray served on the Battleship Maine. 



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MAURICE BILLINGS SMITH 




JAY THOMAS STOCKING 



AMHERST '95 
FREDERICK EDMOND SEARS, B.A. 

Ben 

Educator, 

St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. 

Sears is one of the highly valued men of the class who 
left Amherst in Freshman year. He at once entered 
Harvard, from which he was graduated with the degree 
of B. A. in 1895. 

During the short time that he was at Amherst, he in- 
terested himself in baseball and in football, and would 
have made a most active permanent member of the class. 

He writes, "I look back with the utmost pleasure to 
my year at Amherst, and remember it as the best of my 
four college years." 

Sears was born in Boston, Massachusetts, May 22, 
1871. He prepared for college in the Summerville, Mas- 
sachusetts, High School. 

After leaving Amherst he followed his father^s occu- 
pation, and became a teacher. He is now Head of the 
Department of Science in St. Paul's School, Concord, 
New Hampshire. 

July 28, 1903, he married Mary E. Balch of Baltimore, 
Maryland. He has one child, Frederick E. Sears, Jr., 
1905, now a student in St. Paul's School. 

Sears has visited Europe twice, visiting England, Hol- 
land, Germany, Switzerland, France, Scotland and other 
countries. He is the author of a successful textbook,. 
Essentials of Physics. 



WALTER CLARK SEELYE, B.A..M.D. 

AA<[> 
Surgeon, 
66 William Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. 

"Joe" was born lucky, for his father was President of 
Smith College, with its thousands of girls. "Joe" says, 
"I was in a position where I could look them all over 

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to best advantage and I picked out the best one. I 
picked out a wife from Smith, who is an artist in every 
line." 

"Walt" was born January 3, 1873, in Amherst, so we 
might fitly call him a son of Amherst and of Smith! 
Some parentage ! ! 

He prepared for college at Williston Seminary. 

In Amherst his favorite sport was "Old Doc's" gym- 
nastics, and he displayed great talent as Vice Gymnasium 
Captain and member of the Athletic Team. 

After graduation he studied in the Harvard Medical 
School, from which he was graduated in 1899. Then he 
was Interne at the Massachusetts General Hospital. 
After that he studied six months in Vienna, perfecting 
himself in surgery. Since 1901 he has been in active 
practice in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he has act- 
ed as Surgeon to the Memorial Hospital, and member of 
the Volunteer Service Corps. 

In 1899 he indulged in appendicitis, just to see how 
surgeons really work, and how patients feel. 

He has traveled in various parts of Europe, both for 
pleasure and study. 

Seelye is a member of the Worcester Club, the Bo- 
hemian Club, the Quinsigamond Boat Club, the Worces- 
1;er Fire Society, and various medical clubs. 

June 14, 1904, he married Anne Barrows, of Provi- 
dence, Rhode Island. He has five children, three of 
whom will attend Amherst, Arthur, 1905, Edwin, 1907, 
Harriet, 1908, Laurenus, 1911, and Mary, 1914. 

"Walt" writes, "It doesn't seem possible that twenty- 
five years have passed. As to June, I shall certainly be 
there, and with more or less of my whole family for 
four or five days, God willing. My heart is ever with 
'95. There never was a Class like it, for we have all be- 
come famous." 



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MAURICE BILLINGS SMITH, B.A. 

WY-OBK 
Educator, 
Gardner, Massachusetts. 

Dick Whittington may have been Mayor of London four 
times, but Smith was Treasurer of the Class during all 
four of the college years, — and the Class remained sol- 
vent! 

"Bill" was also Business Manager of The Student, 
He spoke Latin with such a truly Roman accent, that he 
won the Latin prize. 

Smith was born November 28, 1872, in Oberlin, Ohio. 

He prepared for college at the Roxbury Latin School. 
He followed in the footsteps of his father, and became a 
teacher, teaching first at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, then 
as Principal of the High School at Holliston, Massachu- 
setts, and is now Principal of the High School at Gard- 
ner, Massachusetts. 

Smith is a member of the Gardner Boat Club and of 
the Ten-of-Us Club. 

As "Bill" makes no mention of a wife, we assume that 
our Treasurer and Latin student, and altogether eligible 
young bachelor, has not yet attained perfect happiness. 
We still hope for the best, and will keep our eyes open 
for possibilities. 



JAY THOMAS STOCKING, B.A.-B.D.-D.D. 

AKE-OBK 
Minister, 
Upper Montclair, New Jersey. 

"Socks," or "Mr. Sst-Sst-tocking," one of our ever 
vigilant Monitors, a faithful member of the College 
Church Committee, a dignified College Senator, Presi- 
dent of the Y. M. C. A., and an orator whose mellifluous 
voice was heard in the Kellogg Fifteen, the Lester Con- 
test, the Hyde Fifteen and on the Commencement stage, 

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was also Assistant Business Manager and Business Man- 
ager of the ''The Lit." and in spite of all his solemn hon- 
ors, a mighty good fellow, too. 

Stocking was born April 19, 1870, in Lisbon, New 
York. He prepared for college at Ogdensburg, New 
York, Academy. 

When "Socks" left Amherst with seventeen large 
trunks packed with honors, he became a teacher of Eng- 
lish and elocution at the famous Lawrenceville, New Jer- 
sey, School, where he remained until 1898, when he en- 
tered the Yale Divinity School, from which he was gradu- 
ated in 1901. At Yale he won the Hooker Fellowship 
which permitted him in 1902, to study in Berlin and 
Marburg, Germany. 

He served as Pastor at Bellows Falls, 1903 to 1905; 
Newtonville, Massachusetts, 1905 to 1914; Washington, 
District of Columbia, 1914 to 1915, and Upper Montclair 
since 1915. His work in the ministry has been so suc- 
cessful that, in 1913, Amherst conferred upon him the 
degree of D.D. He is now Pastor of the Congregational 
Church of Upper Montclair, New Jersey. 

*'Socks" is a member of the Fortnightly Club of Boston, 
the Cosmos Club of Washington, and of a number of other 
clubs and associations. 

Stocking has published the following works. The Dear- 
est Spot on Earth; Henry F. Patrick, an Appreciation; 
The City that Never was Reached; The Golden Goblet. 

As a literary man. Stocking has contributed various ar- 
ticles to The Congregationalist, The Yale Divinity Re- 
view, and other publications. He has given many public 
addresses, and has preached in many different cities, — 
even in the Amherst College pulpit ! 

Stocking has aided in much charitable work, and has 
been an officer in many missionary societies. 

October 21, 1903, he married Grace C. Porter of New 
Haven, Connecticut. He has four children, Harriet, 1905, 
Elizabeth, 1908, Alice, 1910, and Josephine, 1912. 

"Socks" has attended every reunion, — a record that is a 
clear passport to health, happiness, and Class praise. 

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GEORGE WARNER STONE, B.A. 

B0n 

Educator, 

770 Lake Street, Newark, New Jersey. 

"Georgie" Stone, smiling and cheerful, was born 
in Potsdam, New York, May 16, 1871, and prepared for 
college at the State Normal School in Potsdam. 

Having learned how to say "Veni, Vidi, Vici" like an 
old Roman, he captured the Junior Latin prize, as a result 
of which, no doubt, the proper authorities made him Prin- 
cipal of the Gorham, New Hampshire, High School as 
soon as he left Amherst. 

In addition to the "Veni" affair, he learned a whole lot 
about the verb "Amo" while at Amherst, as a result of 
which he married Ruby Marie Hall of Amherst, Massa- 
chusetts, June 15, 1897. In the same year, 1897, he became 
Principal of the Mansfield, Massachusetts, High School, 
where he remained until 1903, when he went to the Bar- 
ringer High School, Newark, New Jersey, where he is 
still talking about "Veni" and "Amo" as Head Assistant, 
and Teacher of Latin. 

Stone belongs to the Wednesday Club, the Classical 
Association of the Middle States, various local and State 
teachers' associations, and the Royal Arcanum, and he 
is a Mason. 

When he finds time to stop talking Latin, he fools with 
woodwork, tennis and golf. 

"Georgie" has one child, Dorothy Hall Stone, born 
October 1, 1904. Long may she live and flourish, and 
learn to speak Latin like her father. 

*'Sic semper tyrannis e pluribus unum quod erat 
demonstrandum quo vadis!" (We guess "Eph" didn't 

+ppr»li ns for nnthincrn 



teach us for nothing!) 



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AMHERST '05 

WALTER ROBINSON STONE, M.A. 

Merchant, 

300 Allen Street, Syracuse, New York. 



Good hearted Walter Stone was born September 7, 
1872, in Whitesville, Indiana. He had the good sense 
to come east, and fit for college in the Syracuse High 
School. 

"Walt" left Amherst in Senior year, but not before he 
had contributed good material as a member of the 
Editorial Board of The Olio. 

Immediately after leaving college he entered into the 
dry goods business with his father in Syracuse, New 
York, the business in which he is still engaged. 

March 11, 1897, he married Alice M. Palmer of Syra- 
cuse, New York. He has two children, Alice M., 1900, 
and Ellen P., 1902. 

"Stonie" is one of the most successful men of the 
Class. He was Secretary of the Stone Chemical Co., 
Treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce, President of 
the Park Commission, Treasurer of the Republican 
County Committee, a member of many charity boards, 
and of the War Relief boards of Syracuse, and one of the 
most progressive, active and influential Mayors that the 
City of Syracuse ever had. He was President of the New 
York State Conference of Mayors and City Officials. 

It is interesting to note that Stone was prominently 
mentioned as a suitable candidate for the office of Gov- 
ernor of New York State. 

He is a member of the Century Club, the University 
Club, the Citizens' Club and the Bellevue Country Club, 
all of Syracuse. 

He has traveled throughout the United States and 
Canada, as well as in Jamaica and the West Indies, and 
yet he says he has led *'Just the life of the average 
American who has to work for a living." 

In 1917 Amherst honored itself by conferring on him 
the honorary degree of M. A. 

"Stonie" has carried the Amherst spirit into civic 
and political life. He is "a big man." 

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AMHERST '95 

ALBERT MURRAY TIBBETTS, BA. 

AAO-€)BK 

Salesman, 

109 Meridian Street, Melrose, Massachusetts. 

"Bitts" was born January 8, 1873, in North Brook- 
iield, Massachusetts. He prepared for college in North 
Brookfield High School. 

At Amherst he captured the Greek prize in Junior 
year, which may have induced him to be a teacher from 
1895 to 1903, first as private tutor in Philadelphia for 
two years, then in the public school at North Brookfield 
for two years, and after that as Principal at Salisbury 
Academy, Connecticut. Since 1904 he has been a sales- 
man. He was for a time with the American Book Co. 
in Boston, and is now New England representative for 
the Educational Department of the John E. Winston Co., 
book and Bible publishers, Philadelphia. 

On April 25, 1900, he married May Alice Barton of 
Salisbury, Connecticut. He has two children, Margaret, 
1903, and Elizabeth, 1906. 

"Bitts" has traveled in France and Switzerland, and 
is a member of the Elks and the Boston City Club. 



In Memoriam 
JOHN PICKETT TRASK 
0AX 

"Johnnie" Trask, was born January 29, 1873, in Bev- 
erly, Massachusetts, where he prepared for college at a 
private school. 

In Amherst he was a popular, companionable fellow, 
strong in his friendships, and always ready to laugh at 
a joke. 

After nine terms he died of typhoid fever at Amherst, 
November 8, 1894. 

His figure and his ways are still vivid in our memory, 
fresh and strong after all these years. 

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AMHERST '95 

LYNN GEORGE TRUESDELL 

Manufacturer, 
Minneapolis, Minnesota. 



Truesdell is one of the fine fellows who left college in 
the early days of the course, for he was at Amherst only 
three terms. 

Truesdell was bom February 14, 1873, in Owatonna, 
Minnesota. He prepared for college with Professor 
Kenaston. 

When he left Amherst he entered at once into a busi- 
ness career. He was for a time in the grain commission 
industry, and then served as Secretary and Treasurer 
of the Winter & Ames Co., Elevator Line. He is still 
employed in the grain industry with Winter, Truesdell 
& Co. 

Truesdell is a member of the Minneapolis Club, the 
Minikahda Club and the local Automobile Club. 

June 20, 1899, he married Ellen Brann of Minneapolis, 
Minnesota. He has two children, Lynn George Jr., 1903 
and Mary, 1906. 



In Memoriam 

HARRY LEMUEL TWICHELL, B.A.LL.B. 
XW 

Who would have dreamed when "Twich" won the 
championship in Pilosity, that he was to be one of the 
first to leave the Class ! 

He was always genial, hearty, and happy, and we miss 
his cheerful spirit. 

**Twich*s" popularity as an active collegian is seen 
when we remember that he was Manager of our glorious 
Freshman Baseball Team, member of the College Ath- 
letic Team for three years, member of the winning 
Cider Team and Platoon Captain for four years. 

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GEORGE WARNER STONE 




WALTER ROBINSON STONE 



AMHERST '95 

Twichell was born April 30, 1873, in Burdett, New 
York. He prepared for college at Canandaigua Academy, 
New York. 

After graduation he entered the New York Law 
School, from which he was graduated in 1897. He 
practised law in New York City in connection with R. S. 
Rounds, *87, until his early death. 

Twichell died in New York City, December 2, 1905, 
after three weeks' sickness with typhoid fever. 

He is buried at Auburn, New York. 



WILLIAM SEYMOUR TYLER, B.A.-LL.B. 

WY 
Lawyer, 
30 Churdb Street, New York City. 

*Ty," the most faithful, the most energetic, and the 
most interested of Class Secretaries, has done so much 
for the Class that every member owes him a great debt. 
During all the years since graduation, he has kept track 
of the members of the Class, has organized Class meet- 
ings, has contributed to The Amherst Quarterly, has 
stimulated attendance at Amherst dinners, and has been 
helpful in many ways. 

This active gentleman was bom October 18, 1873, in 
Plainfield, New Jersey. 

"Ty" prepared for college at the Leals School, Plain- 
field, New Jersey, and at Williston Seminary. 

In Amherst he appeared on the Kellogg Fifteen, and 
on the Kellogg Five, and was Football Director in Senior 
year. 

In 1895 and 1896 he studied in Hanover, and Got- 
tingen, Germany, where he specialized in Philosophy. 

Then, for two years he studied in the Columbia Law 
School, from which he was graduated in 1899. Since that 
time he has practised law in New York City, and is now 
a member of the firm of Tyler & Tyler. 

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Tyler is a member of the University Club, the Rail- 
road Club, and the W Y Club of New York, and the Plain- 
field Country Club. 

Tyler has held many important positions, among which 
are the following: Member of the Common Council of 
Plainfield, President of the Board of Education of Plain- 
field, Secretary of the Church Organization Society of 
Plainfield, President of the Anti-Tuberculosis League of 
Plainfield, Member of the Executive Committee of the 
American Relief Association, President of the Plainfield 
Food Commission, Federal Food Administrator for New 
Jersey, Director and Secretary of the Rosendale Redda- 
way Belt and Hose Co., of Newark, New Jersey, Presi- 
dent of the Wood Brook Farms Corporation of New Jer- 
sey, Member of the Amherst Alumni Council, and the 
New York Amherst Association, Member of the Bar and 
Lawyers Association, Member of the New England So- 
ciety, Member of the Mayflower Society of New Jersey, 
and Member of the Loyal Legion. 

As Federal Food Administrator for New Jersey, he 
conducted a great work that attracted wide attention, 
so that his picture appeared in the Sunday editions of 
the New York papers and elsewhere. The long and care- 
fully prepared report of his work shows the most pains- 
taking care, as well as great ability. He is a true 
patriot. 

In 1912, he prepared a memorial volume for G. P. 
Putnam's Sons, entitled: Recollections of the Civil War, 

November 23, 1899, Tyler married Ethel Van Bos- 
kerck of Plainfield, New Jersey. He has three children, 
Margaret, 1901, William, 1904, and Edith, 1905. 

William S. Jr. will attend Amherst, so some future 
class will rejoice in the line of Tyler. Long may it 
flourish, for of such is the glory of Amherst. 



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WILLIAM SEYMOUR TYLER 




HERBERT OTIS WHITE 



AMHERST '95 

GRANT VAN SANT, B.L.-LL.B. 

AKE 
Banker, 
30 Crocus Place, St. Paul, Minnesota. 

"Van" was born October 20, 1872, at Le Claire, Iowa. 
He fitted for college at Northwestern University and 
the Winona State Normal School. 

After three terms as a member of the Class of '95, he 
entered the University of Minnesota, from which he was 
graduated in 1895 with the degree of B.L. In 1896 he 
was graduated from the law school of the University of 
Minnesota, with the degree of LL.B. 

May 11, 1904, he married Marion Sanborn. He has two 
children, Virginia, and Grant Jr. 

"Van" is a member of a number of clubs in the city 
of St. Paul, and is an active citizen. 

In 1897 and 1898 he was Captain of Co. I. of the 
Minnesota National Guard. 

In 1899 and 1900 he journeyed around the world. 

Van Sant practised law in Morris, Minnesota, four 
years, in Winona, Minnesota, and in St. Paul. 

For the last ten years he has engaged in banking with 
the Van Sant Trust Co., St. Paul, Minnesota, specializing 
in investments. 



In Memoriam 

CLINTON HIRAM WARD 

AKE 

Ward was a genial, whole-souled member of '95 who, 
in spite of the fact that he left Amherst in Sophomore 
Year, retained his Class spirit and attended Class re- 
unions. 

Ward was born August 11, 1870, in Duxbury, Ver- 
mont. He prepared for college in the St. Johnsbury 
Academy, Vermont. 

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AMHERST '95 

After six terms in Amherst, where he aided in sup- 
porting himself, he left college and became the manager 
of his father's general store at Mooretown, Vermont. 

Ward was killed by a fall from his motorcycle, July 
22, 1914. 

It will be remembered that Ward rode to Amherst on 
his motorcycle when he last met with the Class. 

"Clint" was a loyal member of '95. 



In Memoriam 

HERBERT LAKIN WARREN, B.A. 

Good old Warren, friendly and companionable! As 
we go over the names of those who have passed from us, 
it seems impossible that they can have gone. No mem- 
ber of the Class was more kindly and genial than War- 
ren, whom everyone remembers with affection. 

Warren was born August 24, 1870, in Holden, Massa- 
chusetts. He prepared for college at Worcester 
Academy. 

He became a manufacturer of muslin underwear in 
Westboro, Massachusetts. 

April 5, 1899, he married Katherine Sweet of Canton, 
Pennsylvania. 

Warren died of Bright's Disease after a long period 
of ill health, against which he had struggled manfully. 



GEORGE BARROWS WASHBURN, 

OA0 
Editor, 

Lowell, Massachusetts. 

The Class was unfortunate in losing Washburn at the 
end of the third term. He was born October 17, 1869, in 
Lowell, Massachusetts, where he prepared for college at 
the Lowell High School. 

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AMHERST '95 

For twenty-five years he has served on The Courier 
of Lowell, the last twelve as Night Editor. 

In addition to his editorial work, he says, "I manage 
a small farm where I raise enough food supplies to keep 
myself and small family well equipped physically to 
meet the requirements of life." 

October 15, 1898, he married Ella Jenness of Haver- 
hill, Massachusetts. He has two children, Cecilia, now 
in her second year at Radcliffe, and Catherine, who will 
enter Smith this year. 



HERBERT OTIS WHITE, B.A. 

Ben 

Manufacturer, 

28 Montague Street, Providence, Rhode Island. 

"Herbie," than whom there is no kinder member of 
the class, arrived on this mundane sphere, November 19, 
1871, in Leicester, Massachusetts. He prepared for col- 
lege at Leicester Academy. 

In Amherst, in addition to being a generally good fel- 
low, he played on the Banjo Club in Senior Year, and 
helped to make Commencement beautiful by being Chair- 
man of the Class Comimittee on Decorations. 

For two years after leaving college he was instructor 
in French and Geometry in the Case School of Applied 
Science, Cleveland, Ohio. 

From 1897 to 1902, he was agent and manager of the 
New England Building in Cleveland, Ohio. 

From 1903 to 1904 he was connected with the Empire 
Machinery Co. Since 1905 he has been President and 
General Manager of the Leader Weaving Co., Central 
Falls, Rhode Island. 

October 12, 1904,. he married Mary Dickinson Cowles 
of Deerfield, Massachusetts. He has two daughters, 
Margaret, 1907, and Eleanor, 1912. 

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AMHERST '95 

White belongs to the University Club, the Wanna- 
moisett Country Club, and the Tokalon Club. Since 1918 
he has been a member of the Corporate Board of the 
Memorial Hospital of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. 

"Herbie" has traveled in Italy, Germany, Holland, 
Belgium, France, Switzerland, Scotland and England, 
and in this country, but best of all, he has shown fine 
spirit by attending nearly every Class reunion. 



HARRY STODDARD WILLISTON, B Ji..E.E. 

AAO 
Electrical Engineer and Manager, 
11 Margin Street, Lynn, Massachusetts. 

"Wiley," a distinguished Platoon Officer for four 
years, winner of a Lester Prize, and of the Kellogg 
Declamation Prize, was born December 15, 1872, in 
Northampton Massachusetts. He prepared for college 
at Williston Seminary. 

Immediately after leaving Amherst he began the study 
of electricity at Princeton University, from which he 
was graduated in 1897. Then he took up active work as 
an Electrical Engineer with the General Electric Co., of 
Schenectady, New York, at Lynn, Massachusetts, in New 
York City, and in Philadelphia. He has been with the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Co., the Peerless Electric Co., 
and the Magnet Wire Co. He is now Manager of the 
Massachusetts Electric Manufacturing Co. 

As he puts it, "I was first busy earning a living, then 
worked hard, then very hard, then d — d hard, and now 
am still at it, only harder!" 

He is a member of the Tedesco Country Club, the 
Corinthian Yacht Club, and the A A O of New York. 

October 30, 1907, he married Sydney Stevens of Wash- 
ington, District of Columbia. He has two children, 
Harry, 1908, and Sydney, 1913. 

To his honor and glory he has attended every Class 
reunion. He is a good fellow. 

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HARRY STODDARD WILLISTON 




LOUIS HENRY GOODRICH 
HENRY BEER JOHN PICKETT TRASK 



AMHERST '95 

CHARLES GARDNER WINSLOW, B.A.-B.S. 

OA0 
Electrical Engineer, 
407 West Forest Avenue, Ypsilanti, Michigan. 

Winslow was born in Brandon, Vermont, August 28, 
1871. He prepared for college at Phillips Andover. 

After six terms in Amherst he transferred to the 
University of Vermont, from which he was graduated 
in 1895 with the degree of B.A., and in 1896 with the 
degree of B.S. in Electrical Engineering. 

He was for a time Assistant Electrical Engineer with 
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, Brooklyn, New York, and 
later with the N. Y. C. and H. R. R. Co. He is now 
Assistant Electrical Engineer of the Michigan Central 
Railroad, Detroit, Michigan. 

On February 18, 1902, he married Ella C. Beebe. He 
has one son, Frederick. 



FRANK CARVER WOLFF, 

0AX 
Merchant, 
La Junta, Colorado. 

Wolff left Amherst after being with the Class only one 
term. Nevertheless, his classmates will be glad to know 
what he has done. 

He was born October 22, 1873, in Arvada, Colorado. 
He prepared for college in Dr. Holbrook's Military 
Academy, Ossining, New York. 

Wolff was for a time Bookkeeper with the Dupont 
Powder Co., then Commission Clerk for the Singer 
Manufacturing Co., Denver, Colorado, and when last 
heard from was Local Manager for the Singer Manufac- 
turing Co. at La Junta, Colorado. 

January 29, 1896, he married Hattie Hippie of Den- 
ver, Colorado. He has one child. 

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AMHERST '95 



STATISTICS OF THE CLASS OF '95 



Total regular enrollment 102 

Honorary membership 1 

Graduated in 1895 75 

Graduated in 1895, but enrolled in an- 
other class 1 

Graduated in other years 3 

Obtaining the bachelor's degree from other 
institutions 5 

Dead 13 

Total living members regularly enrolled . . 89 

Average age at graduation 22 years 10 months 

Average age of living members in 1920.. 19 years (according to 

feeling) 



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GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 



State of Birthplace 

Colorado 1 

Connecticut 3 

Idaho 1 

Illinois 9 

Indiana 2 

Iowa 2 

Maine 3 

Massachusetts 27 

Minnesota 2 

Missouri 1 

New Hampshire 4 

New Jersey 3 

New York 31 

Ohio 4 

Pennsylvania 4 

Vermont 4 

West Virginia 1 



102 



State of Residence 

Arizona 1 

California 3 

Colorado 1 

Connecticut 5 

Delaware 1 

District of Columbia 1 

Illinois 7 

Louisiana 1 

Maine 3 

Massachusetts 19 

Michigan 1 

Minnesota 3 

Montana 1 

New Hampshire 3 

New Jersey 8 

New York 34 

Ohio 2 

Oregon 1 

Pennsylvania 3 

Rhode Island 1 

Vermont 2 

Virginia 1 



102 



Residence in State of Birthplace 59 

Residence in another State than that of Birthplace 48 



102 



Ambitions at Graduation 

Business 15 

Education 4 

Engineering — 

Chemical 1 

Electrical 2 

Journalism 3 

Medicine 6 

Ministry 8 

Undecided 26 



Life Occupations 

Architecture 1 

Business 38 

Education 13 

Engineering — 

Chemical 1 

Electrical 2 

Farming 1 

Journalism 5 

Law 19 

Medicine 9 

Ministry 9 

Student 3 

United States Army 1 

102 



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AMHERST 'g5 

GENERAL STATISTICS 



Following father's occupation 28 

Not following father's occupation, or father's occupation not 

reported , 74 

Number who have given important civic service 28 

Number who have given military service 21 

Authors 23 

Books written by members of the Class 35 

Number who have traveled extensively 48 

Proposed for the Presidency of the United States 1 

Governor of a State 1 

Proposed for the oflBce of Governor of a State 3 

Proposed for Judge in the Supreme Court of a State 1 

Member of Congress 1 

Member of a State Senate 2 

Member of a State Assembly 5 

Lieutenant Governor of a State 1 

United States representative abroad 3 

United States Commissioner 1 

Member of the American Shipping Commission 1 

Chairman of a State Board of Institutes and Agencies 1 

Chairman of a State Prison Inquiry Commission 1 

Director of Publicity 1 

Director of War Savings 1 

Federal Food Administrator 1 

Deputy Fuel Administrator 1 

Internal Revenue Agent 1 

Deputy Tax Commissioner 1 

Tax Examiner 1 

Mayor 2 

Judge 2 

City Comptroller 1 

City Solicitor 1 

Police Commissioner 1 

Sherife 1 

Member of a City Council 3 

Member of a School Board 4 

Member of a Water Board 1 

Honorary Deputy Fire Chief 1 

Supervisor 1 

Clerk of the Courts 1 

Chairman of a Local Draft Board 1 

Civilian Adviser to the American Commander in Chief , 1 

Adjutant General of a State 1 

Colonel 1 

Lieutenant Colonel 1 

Major 2 

Captain 4 

Lieutenant 3 

In Y. M. C. A. service abroad 3 

DEGREES HELD BY MEMBERS OF THE CLASS 



B.A 65 F.A.C.S 

B.S 15 C.P.A. 

LL.B 15 LL.D. 

M.A 10 S.B. 

M.D 10 A.E.C. 

B.D 6 D.D. 

Ph.D 3 E.E. 



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AMHERST '95 



MARRIAGES BY YEARS 



1893 Elliott 


1902 Lawson 
McArthur 


1894 Miller 


Newton 




Osgood 


1895 Hardy 


Rowley 




Winslow 


1896 Compton 




Kimball 


1903 Deering 


Kingsland 


Morrow 


F. H. Law 


Mundy 


Schuyler 


Sears 


Wolff 


Stocking 


1897 Armstrong 
Blair 
BuUard 
Burnham 
Post 


1904 Critchlow 
Seelye 
Van Saut 
White 


H. L. Pratt 




Prentiss 


1905 Coolidge 


G. W. Stone 


Eastman 


W. R. Stone 


Mainzer 
Roelker 


1898 Barnes 




Fairbanks 


1906 Bill 


Fiske 




Hanford 


1907 Rawson 


Haven 


Williston 


W, B. Pratt 




Washburne 


1908 


1899 Bryant 


1909 Potter 


Dunbar 




Griswold 


1910 Belden 


Hennessey 


Kelley 


Howard 




Ray 


1911 Bliss 


Sampson 


Bishop 


Truesdell 




Tyler 


1912 


Warren 


1913 Powell 


1900 Bell 
Day 
Lane 


1914 Burnett 


1915 


Little 




Nichols 


1916 Breck 


H. R. Noyes 


Davis 


Tibbetts 






1917 


1901 Andrews 




Bridgman 


1918 


French 




Jenkins 


1919 


C. B. Law 




Phillips 


1920 



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AMHERST '95 



NOT MARRIED, OR MARRIAGES NOT REPORTED 



Bangs 


Lyall 




Beer 


Metcalf 




Boardman 


H. T. Noyes 




Booth 


Otis 




Burr 


Penney 




Chase 


Perry 




Colby 


Rhodes 




Dana 


Smith 




Ewart 


Trask 




Goodrich 


Twichell 




Gray 


Ward 




Jones 






Married 




79 


Not married, 


or marriages not reported 


23 



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AMHERST '95 
THE CHILDREN OF '95 



Sons 

Andrews 2 

Armstrong 

Bangs 

Barnes 

Beer 

Belden 

BeU 

Bill 

Bishop 

Blair 1 

Bliss 

Boardman 

Booth 

Breck 2 

Bridgeman 1 

Bryant 1 

Bullard 1 

Burnham 1 

Burnett 

Burr . . 

Chase 

Colby 

Compton ? 

Coolidge 2 

Critchlow 1 

Dana 

Davis 1 

Day 

Deering 

Dunbar 2 

Eastman 2 

Elliott 

Ewart 

Fairbanks ? 

Fiske 

French 1 

Goodrich 

Gray 

Griswold 2 

Hanford 3 

Hardy 

Haven 2 

Hennessey 

Howard 

Jenkins 2 

Jones 

KeUey 

Kimball 

Kingsland 1 

Lane 3 

C. B. Law 

F. H. Law 2 

Lawson 3 

Little 1 

LyaU 

Mainzer 

McArthur 1 

Metcalf 

Miller 

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Daughters 

1 
1 



Total Children 

3 
1 



AMHERST '95 

Sons Daughters Total Children 

Morrow 1 3 4 

Mundy 1 1 

Newton 

Nichols 1 1 2 

H. R. Noyes 

H. T. Noyes ? ? 1 

Osgood 1 1 

Otis 

Penney 

Perry 

PhiUips 3 1 4 

Post 

Potter 

Powell 

H. L. Pratt 3 2 5 

W. B. Pratt 1 2 3 

Prentiss 

Rawson 1 1 2 

Ray 2 1 3 

Rhodes 

Roelker 3 3 

Rowley 

Sampson 3 . . 3 

Schuyler 4 . . 4 

Sears 1 . . 1 

Seelye 3 2 5 

Smith 

Stocking 4 4 

G. W. Stone 1 1 

W. R. Stone 2 2 

Tibbetts 2 2 

Trask 

Truesdell 1 1 2 

Twichell 

Tyler 1 2 3 

Van Sant 1 1 2 

Ward 

Warren 

Washburn 2 2 

White 2 2 

Williston 1 1 2 

Winslow 1 • • 1 

Wolff ? ? 1 

66 83 154 



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AMHERST '95 



NUMBER OF CHILDREN PER INDIVIDUAL 



8 children 1 

7 children 

6 children 

5 children 3 

4 children 9 

3 children 11 

2 children 22 

1 child 18 

children 38 

102 



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AMHERST '95 



NECROLOGY 



Cause of Death Date 

Lewis Henry Goodrich Typhoid Fever January 28, 1894 

Henry Beer Typhoid Fever February 22, 1894 

John Pickett Trask Typhoid Fever November 9, 1894 

Amasa James Lyall Tuberculosis October 3, 1898 

Theodore Attwater Penney Drowned August 13, 1899 

Herbert Lakin Warren Bright's Disease October 25, 1901 

Harry Lemuel Twichell Typhoid Fever December 2, 1905 

George Stevens Fairbanks 1909 

Robert Bridgman Tuberculosis March 21, 1914 

Clinton Hiram Ward Killed by accident July 22, 1914 

Olin Royal Booth Tuberculosis September 16, 1914 

Benjamin Eastwood Ray Pneumonia January 7, 1916 

Henry Wilder Lane Thrombosis May 10, 1920 



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